Definitions
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- adverb In a
comforting manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a comforting or consoling manner
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Examples
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So there we were, staring at a "comfortingly" expensive wine list, trying to decide which $200 bottle of wine to choose.
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So there we were, staring at a "comfortingly" expensive wine list, trying to decide which $200 bottle of wine to choose.
Augieland: 2005
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The shower pounded against her skin comfortingly, drowning out the barrage of sounds in her head, coaxing her back out of the black pit of despair she had fallen into at the park.
Klondike Kelli Trapnell 2011
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Anna smiled and patted Lisa comfortingly on the cheek.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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He's intensely likable, comfortingly weird and has an innate integrity that is unique to him.
'SNL': Zach Galifianakis Shows How A Perfect Opening Monologue Is Done (VIDEO) 2011
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I'm sure Elijah (and Asimov) saw our hygiene idiosyncrasies as part of what makes us unavoidably, comfortingly human.
Interplanetary Manifest Destiny Erika Nelson 2009
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Anna smiled and patted Lisa comfortingly on the cheek.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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Quintessentially British and comfortingly familiar.
There's nothing wrong with judging a book by its cover | Viv Groskop 2011
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Virtually all the predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print — the moment when, amid a panoply of flashing lights, press conferences, and elegiac reminiscences, the newspaper presses stop rolling and news goes entirely digital.
End Times 2009
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Some features of the list remain comfortingly stable in a rapidly changing world.
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