acquiescently

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I nodded acquiescently, but didn’t make the questions any easier.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

Mrs. Dudley was still for a minute and then, moving her head acquiescently, turned and walked deliberately across the kitchen to a farther doorway.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Being exceedingly doubtful on this occasion, therefore, the very cautious Shan-se adopted the more prudent and uncompromising attitude, and smiling acquiescently, he raised both his hands with a self-deprecatory movement.

From The Wallet of Kai Lung by Bramah, Ernest

The city man acquiescently nodded his head but he was thinking chiefly of the calm patience and the tireless strenuousity with which McGivins, himself, was battling against calamity.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville

"Heap better," said Flor acquiescently, and beginning to hold a whistling colloquy with the hidden voice.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various