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Connoisseurs who inspected the Augustus when she docked found her interior decoration rather commonplacely Italian, in Renaissance and various provincial styles.

From Time Magazine Archive

I could see the fine thoughts go flitting through his eyes, but when he spoke again it was quite commonplacely.

From Different Girls by Various

The travellers we encountered were not commonplacely cosmopolite.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

Often what they said might have read commonplacely to an outsider, for now they told each other the little things 194of every-day life.

From Where the Path Breaks by Créspigny, Charles de

And a new governess, young, commonplacely pretty, and entirely heart-whole, came to take her place, to the open relief of Mr. Despard, and the little less pronounced satisfaction of the little girls.

From The Literary Sense by Nesbit, E. (Edith)