tearily

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UK/ˈtɪəɹɪli/US/ˈtɪɹɪli/

adverb

In a teary manner.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adverbtearily (comparative more tearily, superlative most tearily)

comparative more tearily · superlative most tearily

  1. In a teary manner.

    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.

    2025 November 10, The Vaush Pit, 1:57 from the start, in HE'S FREE, spoken by Ian Anthony "Vaush" Kochinski
    1 more example

    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.

    2009 April 21, Kevin Sack, “With Son in Remission, Family Looks for Coverage”, in New York Times

Origin

Translations

Esperanto larme
  • larmetearily

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

tearily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tearily

MLA

“tearily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tearily. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tearily,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tearily.

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