(formal) (of sb's manner of speaking) in phrases that are very short or not complete, with a lot of pauses; not FLUENTLY:
'I'm sorry,' she murmured brokenly, 'Please don't go! Please...'
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for brokenly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is brokenly a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, brokenly is tagged as adverb.
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