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calmly
[ kahm-lee, kahlm- ]
adverb
- without excitement, agitation, or passion:
He kept his cool throughout, calmly challenging his opponents on alleged facts he believed were wrong.
- (of wind, waves, etc.) with relatively little force or movement; gently:
The wind blew calmly as the three of us lay on the beach, lazily passing the time.
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Other Words From
- qua·si-calm·ly adverb
- un·calm·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of calmly1
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Example Sentences
Assistant coaches thought Hayes was calmer than usual, but they had no idea what he was enduring.
He recalled seeing priests risking their lives in the Dublin crossfire to administer the last rites to the dead, and remembered Pádraic Pearse as “a poet and a schoolteacher,” calm and composed even as he faced execution for his ideals.
Being outdoors on his farm was calming and took him back to something he enjoyed doing.
When little else could, games gave me calm distraction, good cheer or an emotional reset.
Every decision has been made in a calm manner, knowing it’s a journey.
At a press conference Thursday evening, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed the situation calmly.
He calmly offered his vision of an ideology that merges libertarian values with social conservative virtue.
But let me try to make the point more calmly and persuasively.
Thousands walked in the streets calmly singing German folksongs.
That it would sit there and bob calmly like a sailboat on a millpond-calm sea?
She kept her eyes fixed steadily on his, saying what followed gently, calmly, yet as though another woman spoke the words.
But that she could calmly tell him about it, that she could deliberately describe this effect upon her of another man—!
"It will go through, if I live," calmly replied Harry, as he carefully concealed the message in the lining of his coat.
Only at moments was he aware of this—a kind of higher Self, detached from shifting moods, looked on calmly and took note.
Alone the supreme Self in him looked calmly on, seeming to lessen the part that trembled and knew fear.
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