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Placidly

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a placid manner.

    "We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a placid and good-natured manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in a quiet and tranquil manner wordnet

Etymology

From placid + -ly.

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