tearfully
/ˈtɪəfʊli/ /ˈtɪəfəli
/adverb
While crying; in a sad or emotional manner: he tearfully confessed the truth her eyes watered and she smiled tearfully...
- "Don't give him any trouble," she told me tearfully.
- There, the father tearfully embraced the son he had thought dead.
- He tearfully recalls getting beaten up "constantly" at school.