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  • adverb In a manner that relaxes.

Etymologies

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relaxing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Robbers relaxingly perform their crimes and escape through the border.

    Concern over Voters' Security in Nepal 2008

  • A prey to the maleficent power which acts relaxingly upon us by the fluid circulating through our nerves, his whole frame seemed gradually to experience a dissolving process.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • The forward movement continues for some time, relaxingly passing me along the placenta-like corridor.

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004

  • The forward movement continues for some time, relaxingly passing me along the placenta-like corridor.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • The forward movement continues for some time, relaxingly passing me along the placenta-like corridor.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • The forward movement continues for some time, relaxingly passing me along the placenta-like corridor.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • I had my hands on Modred's shoulders and leaned to deposit a kiss on the side of his neck, which he took about like the touch of my hands, as something relaxingly pleasant "I think my lady is awake."

    Port Eternity Cherryh, C. J. 1982

  • He smelt the pheromones that the male had emitted to make the female believe that it was following a whole army of male hunters who had procured food when really there was just that one male poised relaxingly waiting for the ovulating specimen to come to its perch.

    Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

  • He helped himself, almost feeling like an American spreading out relaxingly over the world with Thailand and other countries as his footstool, carefree and gormandizing chocolate down his gullet.

    Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

  • One felt that a giant had been at work all day, and was now stretching himself, not lazily, but a little relaxingly.

    The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

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