Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a quiescent manner; calmly; quietly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a quiescent manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
quiescent manner.
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Examples
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For example, to judge from the film's animated interludes, the "successful" teacher is one who literally pours information into a student's head while the child sits passively, quiescently awaiting the enlightenment.
Susan Deily-Swearingen: Superman Revealed Susan Deily-Swearingen 2010
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For example, to judge from the film's animated interludes, the "successful" teacher is one who literally pours information into a student's head while the child sits passively, quiescently awaiting the enlightenment.
Susan Deily-Swearingen: Superman Revealed Susan Deily-Swearingen 2010
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For example, to judge from the film's animated interludes, the "successful" teacher is one who literally pours information into a student's head while the child sits passively, quiescently awaiting the enlightenment.
Susan Deily-Swearingen: Superman Revealed Susan Deily-Swearingen 2010
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Of the quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen after-meal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room.
Humor 2007
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But Natalie has never been one for popsicles, suspecting there are many other quiescently frozen confections available that provide more oomph.
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Of the quiescently frozen dessert and of all frozen after-meal treats you may eat, but absolutely not in the living room.
Humor 2007
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I think tomorrow will want to know how we could have meekly and quiescently allowed our civil rights to be abridged.
March 2006 2006
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Rumor suggests Harlan Ellison may have written the original script; asked about the episode at 1978's IgunaCon II science fiction convention, however, Ellison described the episode as "a quiescently glistening cherem of pus."
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Rumor suggests Harlan Ellison may have written the original script; asked about the episode at 1978's IgunaCon II science fiction convention, however, Ellison described the episode as "a quiescently glistening cherem of pus."
The Sudden Curve: 2005
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She was pretending to look down quiescently at her folded hands but in fact she was studying the captain.
Spirit Gate 2006
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