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View definitions for calmly

calmly

adverb as in quietly

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Children's anger also often stems from feelings of fear or disappointment that they lack the skills to express calmly.

The room was hushed as she responded calmly that when she had first gone into the court in Avignon her children were ashamed of the name, but that her grandchildren were still called Pelicot.

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"Everybody was being sick, apart from one man who kept calmly coming up the bar and ordering large whiskies."

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The farming minister has urged farmers to "look calmly" at the government's plans to make them pay inheritance tax and insisted that "the vast majority will be fine".

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In the middle of the work, Lemon recounts two dreams — calmly, except when he shrieks “Mommy!” over and over.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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