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[ adverb ] in an affectionate or loving manner
Synonyms Examples "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly" (`sweet' is a poetic or informal variant for `sweetly' as in "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare "talking sweet to each other") Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)Over the rapidly diminishing outline of a jump_seat piled high with luggage Herry 's black brushcut was just discernible , near , or enviably near that spot where - hidden - more delicately textured , most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool , oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes . Related terms |
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