The word "dearly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as an adverb to describe something that is valued, cherished, or dearly beloved. For example: "She cherished and loved her grandmother dearly."
While the bird flu outbreak might not cost average Americans more than a few extra dollars on eggs and deli meat, one group is paying dearly: farmers.
It is surely a supreme irony that the Irish government, the opposition in the Dáil and the trade unions would dearly love more time to drive down the country's unprecedented national debt from over 30% today to around 3% of Irish GDP.
"I would dearly love to know who signed off those letters," he added.
The service begins: "Dearly beloved and hated…" and ends with the couple pledging to stay together "in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, until the bike goes off the road".
He recounts joining a reprisal party in the mid-1860s, while mayor, for the killers of a shepherd: "They got on top of a big mound & defied us & smacked their buttocks at us & hurled large stones down on us, & hid themselves behind large trees and huge rocks but some of them paid dearly for their bravado.
I loved her dearly and we had a very nice time, but on the Kinsey scale, I would say I was always predominantly gay.
As an Irish expatriate living abroad, I cannot vote, yet dearly hope it passes and Ireland becomes a more equal place.
And besides, wouldn't most countries be supportive of their star player skipping a match against a minnow to be sure of making their presence felt when it was dearly needed?
For there can be no doubt that De Souza was in command of information that most people running schools would dearly love to hold.
Looking to atone for their 82-point loss to North Melbourne last weekend, the Lions never looked in the contest and despite both sides having similar numbers in contested possessions, inside 50s, handballs and clearances, a lack of disposal efficiency and marks inside 50 cost the Lions dearly.
— Todd Leckie (@todd_leckie) August 7, 2012 Would dearly love to be racing today although this swim is going to hurt like hell.
