Quietlike

adj, adv

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Indicative or characteristic of quietness or of being quiet.

    "Me, no, wouldn't hurt nobody, but where the fuck was I? Guess I wasn't so much in school, this serene quietlike country setting, as sitting on the spare tire of an open gun jeep manning an M-60 machine gun, patrolling a mountain side, [...]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a quietlike manner; quietly.

    ""[...] I can watch her quietlike... like a man.""

Example

More examples

"Me, no, wouldn't hurt nobody, but where the fuck was I? Guess I wasn't so much in school, this serene quietlike country setting, as sitting on the spare tire of an open gun jeep manning an M-60 machine gun, patrolling a mountain side, [...]"

Etymology

From quiet + -like.

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