Placidly

Quick meaning: Placidly is an adverb meaning In a placid manner.

Meaning

In a placid manner.

Example Sentences

He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat.

“You act like you grew ten inches in the night! All right, what is it?” Jem said placidly, “We are going to give a note to Boo Radley.”

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include placably, calmly, tranquilly, placatively, calmingly, mellowly.

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