Brokenly

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In a broken, interrupted manner; without regularity.
  • In broken or imperfect language.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adverb. In a broken manner.
  • adverb. With spaces between words, especially due to emotion.
  • Word Usage
    "He made a swift motion toward her, saying her name brokenly in his choked voice, but he crumpled suddenly and slid from his chair to the floor and was still."