What does placidly mean?
Placidly means In a placid manner..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
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.
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.”
Use placidly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Placidly means In a placid manner..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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