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- adverb In a
commonplace manner.
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Examples
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I could see the fine thoughts go flitting through his eyes, but when he spoke again it was quite commonplacely.
Different Girls Various
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"Now, Marjorie, don't act like a movie-heroine," he said commonplacely -- and infuriatingly.
I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931
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Doncaster is a mighty pleasant, friendly, rather modern, and commonplacely American-looking town, with two-story trams gently ambling up and down its chief avenues, in the leisurely English fashion, and all of more or less arrival and departure at the race-grounds.
Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878
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