tearily

English

Etymology

From teary +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

Adverb

tearily (comparative more tearily, superlative most tearily)

  1. In a teary manner.
    • 2009 April 21, Kevin Sack, “With Son in Remission, Family Looks for Coverage”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      When Danna Walker left the second-floor conference room and returned tearily to her desk — where someone had already deposited a packing box for her belongings — her first thought was not of the 14 years she had worked for DHL or the loss of her $37,000-a-year salary.
    • 2025 November 10, The Vaush Pit, 1:57 from the start, in HE'S FREE‎[2], spoken by Ian Anthony "Vaush" Kochinski:
      That's so funny. The cop up there, [the] border patrol officer, like, tearily recounting the incident, y'know? How he nearly died? God, that's funny.

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