soothingly

comparative more soothingly · superlative most soothingly

1. In a soothing manner.

   The Saint lit his long clay pipe and the smoke oozled up around the puffs on his wig and drifted and sank soothingly about his troubled countenance.

   1897, The Yale Literary Magazine - Volume 62

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   I had a cup of tea - the last decent cup of tea for many days; and in a room that most soothingly looked just as you would expect a lady’s drawing-room to look, we had a long quiet chat by the fireside.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201

   "I have the beginnings of genius," he finally decided, "that is, I can see for myself, but I cannot pass the vision on to others by production." Half a loaf is better than none," said Miss Enistor soothingly.

   1912, Fergus Hume, chapter 1, in A Son of Perdition

   “Don’t swear so, John. What if you should be struck dead with such horrid oaths on your lips!” said his wife soothingly. “Swear so? Jimminy crickets, by all that’s great I’m not swearing; but I am going to express my opinion of this confounded, nine cornered bazoo of a blamed rickety infernal bit of stove pipe—” Exit the wife with her hands over her ears.

   1882 September 30, “Slings and Arrows”, in The Boston Daily Globe, volume XXII, number 92, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 1

   Lulling music washed around me, soft voices announced the rising and falling of airliners, huge screens clicked soothingly through neverending arrivals and departures.

   1987, Christina Hardyment, “Picking up Gold and Silver”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 99