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  • adverb In a weakhearted manner.

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weakhearted +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • German, even in the post-war days when the enemy sent its Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and we weakheartedly reopened trade with the diabolical Huns and allowed them to dump in their cheap and nasty goods just as though no war had happened.

    The Stretton Street Affair William Le Queux 1895

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