adv. [f. TIRED ppl. a.1 + -LY2.] In a tired manner; wearily.

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1659.  Torriano, Alla-strácca, wearisomely, tiredly.

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1871.  Aurora of the Valley (Newbury, VT), 2 Sept., 2/5. Going down own of the very steep streets, where the pavement was covered with ice, I saw before me an old woman, slowly and tiredly, picking her way.

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1891.  Ménie Muriel Dowie, Girl in Karp., xiii. 161. How tiredly she nodded the white-fair, weary head!

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1896.  Mrs. Caffyn, Quaker Grandmother, 104. Her hands dropped tiredly into her lap.

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