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The word 'sympathetically' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to express or show sympathy or understanding towards someone or something. For example, "The teacher listened sympathetically to her student's concerns."
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sympathetically
adverb
Owing to or showing evidence of "sympathy", or affinity; happening through or demonstrating correspondences, whether occult or physiological.
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You'd feel a great wave of compassion for this total stranger, and still be listening sympathetically 20 minutes later.
– will look sympathetically (simper-thetically) on our efforts.
Too often people in a relationship do not want to listen to their partner's woes because they feel that means they are to blame, or that they have to fix them, but actually, being heard non-defensively and sympathetically goes a long way to restoring equilibrium.
The first was last year to Austria, where he was also sympathetically received by a government stridently opposed to EU sanctions on Russia.
Ours don't have the invitingly soft appearance of female tummies, nor do they sympathetically trace the body's natural lines.
She consulted several British designers, only to find that they did not respond sympathetically to her over-arching vision and were too inflexible to accommodate it.
But the other argument is that, when done sympathetically, such travel enhances our understanding of difficult situations.
Nodding sympathetically, as they mostly grumble to order, he then shares the pain of betrayal.
Applications for non-Muslim places of worship have been sympathetically received.
He wrote sympathetically and perceptively about Islam, and movingly about refugees especially boat people, and especially if they were Vietnamese.
A government spokesman in the House of Lords, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, responded sympathetically to calls in that house on April 6th for a public inquiry once criminal investigations were complete, which might lead to tighter press regulation.The coppers, however, are likely to feel the biggest fallout.
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