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- adverb So as to
smooth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well I'm pleased to report we did a great deal of that and everything went swimmingly and smoothingly.
Me, Nigel, Lembit and the Cheeky Girls and not forgetting Sian. 2007
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Well I'm pleased to report we did a great deal of that and everything went swimmingly and smoothingly.
Me, Nigel, Lembit and the Cheeky Girls and not forgetting Sian. 2007
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Well I'm pleased to report we did a great deal of that and everything went swimmingly and smoothingly.
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The squaws wrapped themselves afresh in their blankets, passed brown palms smoothingly down their hair from the part in the middle, settled their braids upon their bosoms with true feminine instinct, and waited.
Good Indian B. M. Bower 1905
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"You are to reflect, Mr. Woodcourt," observed Mr. Kenge, using his silver trowel persuasively and smoothingly, "that this has been a great cause, that this has been a protracted cause, that this has been a complex cause.
Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853
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"You are to reflect, Mr. Woodcourt," observed Mr. Kenge, using his silver trowel persuasively and smoothingly, "that this has been a great cause, that this has been a protracted cause, that this has been a complex cause.
Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841
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