[
US
/kəmˈpæʃənətˌɫi/
]
[ UK /kəmpˈæʃənətli/ ]
[ UK /kəmpˈæʃənətli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a compassionate manner
the nurse looked at him pityingly
How To Use compassionately In A Sentence
- Character faults and foibles surface slowly and are dealt with compassionately.
- As a qualified pet bereavement counsellor I would like to help pet owners compassionately and in confidence.
- ‘It's just your imagination, dearie,’ the nurse said compassionately.
- No one but the stone-hearted or the compassionately impaired could look at millions of people turning out to stand on line in some of the most dangerous real estate in the world to vote and not be inspired.
- To begin with, you'd strive for being a mensch by giving cheerfully and compassionately and not grudgingly.
- Not that he knew he was back, he simply found himself in a room full of monsters, lanky, pasty giants clad in disgusting nether garments, who, rather than beat him compassionately into stability, kept their distance and moaned.
- Instead, you will probably talk compassionately to her, put an arm around her, see what is so upsetting, and inspire her with words that will keep her optimistic and inspired.
- She felt a natural aversion for light women and the sort the soldiers called their sweethearts or "doxies," but it had been revealed to her that we should hold such in great pity and deal compassionately with them. The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909
- As a qualified pet bereavement counsellor I would like to help pet owners compassionately and in confidence.
- It had always been so soothing to Scarlett to hear her mother whisper, firmly but compassionately, as the tiptoed down the hall:'Hush, not so loudly.