Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a reassuring manner; so as to reassure.

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  • adverb In a reassuring manner.

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  • adverb in a reassuring manner

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Examples

  • I completely understood the appeal of a piece of chicken thigh, its little square of crispy skin reassuringly attached, whose creamy texture and full flavor would be hard or impossible to obtain by any other cooking method.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • I completely understood the appeal of a piece of chicken thigh, its little square of crispy skin reassuringly attached, whose creamy texture and full flavor would be hard or impossible to obtain by any other cooking method.

    Out of the Frying Pan 2006

  • Michael Koresky dumps on the film twice before he even gets to this: "Ensconced in reassuringly Hollywood-cribbed CGI and offering the kind of black-and-white moral dilemmas and historical simplifications that should rightly make any rabid anti-Spielberg polemicist bear his fangs, Pan's Labyrinth is this year's Am�lie, the prototypical Foreign Film for Dummies."

    GreenCine Daily: Interview. Guillermo Del Toro. 2006

  • Anyway, Kos weighs in reassuringly, saying "Everyone has to make decisions based on their local circumstances, and if they feel being associated with this site harms them, then I have no bad feelings," and assuring one and all that while he may have been fouled, he's not harmed.

    If you don't know what FUBAR means... 2004

  • Anyway, Kos weighs in reassuringly, saying "Everyone has to make decisions based on their local circumstances, and if they feel being associated with this site harms them, then I have no bad feelings," and assuring one and all that while he may have been fouled, he's not harmed.

    Tet II - Another ring of Hell 2004

  • Anyway, Kos weighs in reassuringly, saying "Everyone has to make decisions based on their local circumstances, and if they feel being associated with this site harms them, then I have no bad feelings," and assuring one and all that while he may have been fouled, he's not harmed.

    Wow, feels like Super Sunday... 2004

  • Anyway, Kos weighs in reassuringly, saying "Everyone has to make decisions based on their local circumstances, and if they feel being associated with this site harms them, then I have no bad feelings," and assuring one and all that while he may have been fouled, he's not harmed.

    From the "Don't Panic" department... 2004

  • Anyway, Kos weighs in reassuringly, saying "Everyone has to make decisions based on their local circumstances, and if they feel being associated with this site harms them, then I have no bad feelings," and assuring one and all that while he may have been fouled, he's not harmed.

    On a brighter note... 2004

  • Anyway, Kos weighs in reassuringly, saying "Everyone has to make decisions based on their local circumstances, and if they feel being associated with this site harms them, then I have no bad feelings," and assuring one and all that while he may have been fouled, he's not harmed.

    Archive 2004-04-01 2004

  • The rancher called reassuringly, 'That last was a perfect kill.

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

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  • "As I've told you many times before, Janet, Psycho was a wonderful movie," said Tom, reassuringly.

    October 30, 2007