Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a composed manner; calmly; without agitation; serenely; sedately.
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- adverb In a
composed manner.
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- adverb in a self-collected or self-possessed manner
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Examples
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Whilst she counted the coins composedly on the table before her he added: 'Leave me nevertheless the price to come to
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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Though he snarled wrathily, Michael turned away composedly and looked up into
CHAPTER VI 2010
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She glanced at George and spoke composedly, though she hid a trembling hand in a fold of her skirt.
CREATED HE THEM 2010
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“Ask Captain Larsen,” I answered composedly and coldly, though inwardly my blood was boiling at the thought that she should be witness to such brutality.
Chapter 21 2010
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Miss Giddings saw a vision of sudden death, and screamed; but Mrs. Van Wyck faced him composedly.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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“They spared neither the women nor the children,” reported an admirer.41 The Venetian ambassador found it “strange and barbarous to see people in every street composedly, deliberately committing acts of cruelty upon inoffensive fellow-countrymen, often acquaintances, even relations.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Not with the smouldering, smothering, choking hysteria that still worked in the fox-terriers did he listen, nor with quivering of muscles and jumps of over-wrought nerves, but coolly, composedly, as if no battle royal had just taken place and no rips of teeth and kicks of feet still burned and ached his body.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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“They spared neither the women nor the children,” reported an admirer.41 The Venetian ambassador found it “strange and barbarous to see people in every street composedly, deliberately committing acts of cruelty upon inoffensive fellow-countrymen, often acquaintances, even relations.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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She ate her way through the delicious meal, answering composedly when spoken to, but not contributing to the conversation, for somehow Estelle, without saying a word, had managed to convey to her the fact that she was the nurse and only there because they were all too well-mannered to dwell on the fact that she was paid wages and was hardly out of the same drawer, socially speaking.
You Don't Take Names Ajay Nair 2010
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She murmured composedly that that would be lovely.
Movie Night 2010
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