placidly

English

Etymology

placid +‎ -ly

Adverb

placidly (comparative more placidly, superlative most placidly)

1. In a placid manner.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582:

     He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat.