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- adverb Alternative form of
smolderingly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with barely repressed anger
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Examples
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Both the strength and weakness of Ms. Lenkiewicz's drama is that she puts at its center a love affair between an aristocratic lady, Celia Cain, played with thoroughbred high spirits by Lesley Manville, and a factory girl, Eve Douglas, the smoulderingly sensual Jemima Rooper, both of whom, having smashed windows in the course of demonstrations, elect to go to prison.
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A boldy out lesbian in a profession that is taking slowly to out performers, Clayton is a smoulderingly beautiful mezzo-soprano and a dynamic actress; I thought she'd be a dynamite Carmen.
Archive 2006-04-01 Will 2006
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He was a Pole, and he had caught fire where others would merely have glowed smoulderingly.
The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler
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His face looked drawn, and his eyes burned smoulderingly -- like fire half-quenched.
The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler
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Only the door of the power-house glowed smoulderingly, and
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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"One o 'thae nurses," continued the patient smoulderingly.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 Various 1898
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Luckily, head Rachel is primed to smoulderingly intervene.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk John Robinson 2010
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Luckily, head Rachel is primed to smoulderingly intervene.
Culture | guardian.co.uk John Robinson 2010
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Although smoulderingly charismatic and fortified by a teasingly doled-out back story concerning his impoverished childhood, shattering combat experiences, assumed identity and pathological inability to reveal any more of himself than a situation demands, Draper, a brilliant ad man, remains a shimmering cipher.
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Although smoulderingly charismatic and fortified by a teasingly doled-out back story concerning his impoverished childhood, shattering combat experiences, assumed identity and pathological inability to reveal any more of himself than a situation demands, Draper, a brilliant ad man, remains a shimmering cipher.
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