broodingly

English

Etymology

From brooding +‎ -ly.

Adverb

broodingly (comparative more broodingly, superlative most broodingly)

1. In a brooding manner.
   • 1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35:

     But he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.