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nostalgically

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nos·tal·gi·a  (n-stlj, n-)
n.
1. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
2. The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

[Greek nostos, a return home; see nes-1 in Indo-European roots + -algia.]

nos·talgic (-jk) adj.
nos·talgi·cal·ly adv.
nos·talgist n.
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Adv.1.nostalgically - in a nostalgic manner; "they spent an hour together, talking nostalgically as they wandered slowly down the coast road"
Translations
nostalgically [nɒˈstældʒɪkəli] adv [look back] → avec nostalgie
nostalgically
advnostalgisch; (= wistfully)wehmütig; they look back nostalgically to the warsie blicken mit Nostalgie auf den Krieg zurück


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I must admit, though, that I sometimes wonder if older Fulham fans sometimes look back a little nostalgically to the days when they could arrive at the ground ten minutes before the kick off, have a reasonably priced pie and then stand wherever they wanted to cheer on players they often met out in town and who didn''t earn more in a week than the fans themselves would make in a year or two.
Alajdin Demiri notes that when the political parties are faced with extinction, they nostalgically recall their earlier ideas or they ask to be pardoned for their mistakes.
My friend parked the car and I looked nostalgically at the home I grew up in.
 
 
 
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