faint-heartedly

See also: faintheartedly

English

Adverb

faint-heartedly (comparative more faint-heartedly, superlative most faint-heartedly)

1. Alternative spelling of faintheartedly.
   • 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric Dreamed a Dream”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 132:

     Then once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again.