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quietlike en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From quiet + -like.

Meanings

  1. Indicative or characteristic of quietness or of being quiet.
    • Me, no, wouldn't hurt nobody, but where the fuck was I? Guess I wasn't so much in school, this serene quietlike country setting, as sitting on the spare tire of an open gun jeep manning an M-60 machine gun, patrolling a mountain side, [...] 2007, Richard Boes, The Last Dead Soldier Left Alive:

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quietlike en · ADV · etymology 2

Etymology

From quiet + -like.

Meanings

  1. In a quiet manner; quietly.
    • "[…] I can watch her quietlike... like a man." 2009, John Aubrey Anderson, Abiding Darkness:

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more quietlike Degree=Cmp lexicographic
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