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In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape without leaving prison.

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2012

No wonder Britain is in love with Scandinavian crime dramas – their dour sensibility chimes soddenly with our rain-soaked souls.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2012

And afterward, sloping off to the dressing room, he moved slowly and soddenly: he’d soaked through his clothes.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2011

In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

We can neither rightly estimate social gain, nor rightly condemn social evil, because we are so soddenly habituated to consider only personal gain, personal good and personal evil; because we are kitchen-minded.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins