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[edit]Adverb
[edit]equanimitably (comparative more equanimitably, superlative most equanimitably)
- In an equanimitable manner.
- 1988 September 6, Jeanne Freeman, “Giving in”, in The Greenville News, Greenville, S.C., page 1B, column 1:
- Mother stuck her head out in the hall, took a deep breath. “Nurse!” she hollered again. “Geez, Mother,” I burst out. “You’re going to have the entire hospital in here. Can’t you behave?” My mother seemed to consider this for a moment. She squeezed up her eyes and looked thoughtful. Then she brightened. “I don’t think so,” she said equanimitably. She drifted closer to the call button.
- 1995, Gary Esarey, “Boxing the fox”, in How Crows Talk and Willows Walk, Boise, Ida.: Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, →ISBN, page 41:
- In attitude so loving sweet, madly, life, how did you expect to die, well, equanimitably? — with a bloody snap of the fingers, dearie? with a bleeding cast of facial contemptuosity, ducky?
- 1997 November 24, Ray Bert, “Chaos Orb Auction, 11/24”, in rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.auctions (Usenet):
- Rules: […] 5) Whatever I forgot will be handled equanimitably.
- 2003, Andrew Lewis Conn, P, New York, N.Y.: Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, pages 314–315:
- With open palms and trusting face, softly, gently, equanimitably, Benji explained the true identity of the midnight child to the guard, who, after flipping Finn's features through his mental Rolodex, announced the wanderer’s return via intercom to the keeper of apartment 13-A, and sheepishly let the pair proceed to the elevator bank.
- 2019 August 25, Jem Roberts Books (@JemRoberts), Twitter[1], archived from the original on 12 June 2023:
- Tips on how to go from equanimitably smiley to ragingly angry with the world in under ten minutes: climb Arthur’s Seat on the hottest day of all time. For added ire, have a gang of young twats playing Cohen dirge Hallelujah at the top.
- 2022 November 14, Nathan Pearson (@GenomeNathan), Twitter[2], archived from the original on 12 June 2023:
- So you recognize spatial banishment and denial of citizenship to long native families on grounds of ethnicity/religion as #apartheid, eh? Do you apply that definition equanimitably, including on banishment of families with even thicker deep roots in a given homeland?