dissolutely
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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A wisp of hair waves dissolutely across her forehead between her eyes.
From Love Conquers All by Williams, Gluyas
"I have seen," says he, "foreign ambassadors in the queen's presence laugh so dissolutely at some rare pastime or sport that hath been made there, that nothing in the world could have worse becomen them."
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy
It had the negative value of providing artificial trials for young gentlemen with patrimony and no occupation who might otherwise be living idly on their country estates, or dissolutely in London.
From English Travellers of the Renaissance by Howard, Clare
He shrugged himself free from my grasp and turned away; his nervous fingers plucked unconsciously at his evening tie until it was loosened and the ends hung dissolutely over his shirt front.
From Jaffery by Locke, William John
To "royt" is to go about idly or dissolutely.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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