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  • adverb In an unpeaceful manner.

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unpeaceful +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • But whatever it is, it has the desired effect, and "Swizzling Jinnie" lurches over to the table, under which she sprawls at length, and tuning up her nasophone she sleeps aloud, and unpeacefully, demonstrating to all the world that after all a

    Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • An animated topless Ariel climbs upon a rock at the end and the scene morphs into the real-life statue that still rests (albeit unpeacefully) in Copenhagen today.

    The Book Mine Set 2009

  • I’m thinking about the demonstrators at the Republican Convention in the fall, and of course Tehran last month, and an endless list of peaceful people treated unpeacefully.

    A user’s guide to homelessness « Dating Jesus 2009

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