Synonyms for weakly
ˈwik liweak·ly

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1. decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weaklyadverb

   lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

   "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

   Synonyms:
   weak, watery, infirm, unaccented, washy, shaky, debile, rickety, woebegone, lame, rachitic, nerveless, run-down, wonky, imperfect, creaky, faint, frail, decrepit, light, fallible, flea-bitten, wobbly, feeble, derelict, sapless

   Antonyms:
   robust, strongly

2. weaklyadverb

   in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree

   "weakly agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was weakly attracted to her"

   Antonyms:
   robust, strongly

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1. weaklyadjective

   Synonyms:
   feeble, languid, weak, not strong

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1. List of paraphrases for "weakly":

   sparsely, loosely, poorly, faintly, shallowly, slightly, dimly, marginally, low, low-level, thinly, mildly

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How to use weakly in a sentence?

1. Homer:

   Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

2. Christopher Castro:

   The Southwest monsoon does have a relationship to ENSO, such that La Niña conditions tend to weakly favor wetter and earlier monsoons.

3. Paul Callan:

   In the end a prosecution case which started weakly built to a strong conclusion.

4. Michael Weinstein:

   The complaint, which weakly tries tocast the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) as the evil,bête noire,main villain here, outrageously plays down that the issue was Shields of Strength’s use of the trademarked Department of Defense (DoD) branch emblems on its religious products.

5. Richard Hewston:

   For example, in India and Pakistan, to some extent, there are building codes in place but they are very weakly implemented. You see construction going on, on the sides of landslide-prone mountains or in flood plains, in theory, there's urban planning.