impatiently
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impatiently (comparative more impatiently, superlative most impatiently)
- In an impatient manner.
- Stella was waiting impatiently for the delivery to come.
- 1848, Jacob Abbott, “Story I. Labour Lost.—Elky.”, in Rollo at Work: Or, The Way for a Boy to Learn to be Industrious[1], London: James S. Hodson, page 5:
- He watched his corn impatiently for two days, and, as it did not come up, he thought he would plant it again with beans. He ought to have waited longer.
- 1887, James H. Scott, “O, Where Is Our Bird?”, in Poems[2], second edition, St. Louis: Slawson & Co., page 68:
- The keys are awaiting
Thy magical touch,
And the strings are impatiently mute.
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without patience
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