quietlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From quiet +‎ -like.

Adjective[edit]

quietlike (comparative more quietlike, superlative most quietlike)

  1. Indicative or characteristic of quietness or of being quiet.
    • 2007, Richard Boes, The Last Dead Soldier Left Alive:
      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, [...]

Adverb[edit]

quietlike (comparative more quietlike, superlative most quietlike)

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