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placidly

adverb as in quietly

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adverb as in smoothly

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Ogie, who accepts without question that his legs don’t function, is helped each morning into the tub by one of the brothers, where he placidly exists.

“A change from the climbing gym,” he says placidly.

Archie, the owl whose species is native to Europe and Asia, stood placidly under the shower of a sprinkler.

From Reuters

“I immediately knew I didn’t want to play him as evil,” said Moayed, whose Torvald seems so placidly self-satisfied, having the wife he calls his “songbird” live by his rules.

“We do not intend to wait placidly for those rights, which are already legally and morally ours, to be meted out to us one at a time,” the Appeal declared.

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

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