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smoothly - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
smooth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adverb
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adverb smooth manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adverb adverb
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
smooth + -ly
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His gaze went cool and opaque, his expression smoothly blank.
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
His gaze went cool and opaque, his expression smoothly blank.
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
His gaze went cool and opaque, his expression smoothly blank.
Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010
The configuration files for the virtual servers went in smoothly , and I even managed to trick the MySQL database management system that holds all my blog posts to let me simply copy my files by creating an empty database of the same name and then overwriting it with my backups – far faster than importing everything.
When going online was a Dark Art 2009
The lid spun smoothly from the cask with a soft sucking sound.
HALF • by Fred Warren 2010
The crisp, chocolaty cookies are a nice textural contrast to the creamy cream cheese base of the cake, and the creme filling of the cookie blends in smoothly and sweetly to the rest of the dessert.
Halloween Oreo Cheesecakes | Baking Bites 2009
Suitably rubber-gloved, he took hold of said thread and pulled sharply, expecting a nice big bag of smack to emerge smoothly from the orifice.
What A Load Of Pants! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
The fact that most births go smoothly is actually unfortunate in the respect that it encourages people to do home births where resuscitation equipment and personnel are not readily available.
John Mayer’s Crush on Ricki Lake 2008
BBC News: The unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft blasted off smoothly from a launch pad in southern Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration.
India Launches First Moon Mission | Disinformation 2008
But as soon as it becomes part of the distribution system, as soon as the wheels start locking together and everything works smoothly from the production and distribution point of view, then the [replacement artists who can produce the work the way the system wants it done] become important.
Mind Meld: If The SF/F Community Ran Hollywood... Lou Anders 2008
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