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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a suppressed or restrained manner.

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Examples

  • Giles had not before observed her, and his eyes now suppressedly looked his pleasure, without the embarrassment that had formerly marked him at such meetings.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • He perceived that she wanted to be rid of him, so that when she went upstairs, he took his hat and lounged out on to the cliffs, suppressedly angry.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

  • Susan, completing the quartette, looked dreamily from face to face, yawned suppressedly, and wrestled with "The Right of Way."

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, with lazy eyes blinking at the fire, these sounds and sights of another world would make the hair to rise along his back and stand on end across his shoulders and up his neck, till he whimpered low and suppressedly, or growled softly, and the half-breed cook shouted at him, "Hey, you Buck, wake up!"

    Chapter 4, Who Has Won to Mastership 1903

  • And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, with lazy eyes blinking at the fire, these sounds and sights of another world would make the hair to rise along his back and stand on end across his shoulders and up his neck, till he whimpered low and suppressedly, or growled softly, and the half-breed cook shouted at him, "Hey, you Buck, wake up!"

    Chapter 4 1903

  • And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, with lazy eyes blinking at the fire, these sounds and sights of another world would make the hair to rise along his back and stand on end across his shoulders and up his neck, till he whimpered low and suppressedly, or growled softly, and the half-breed cook shouted at him, "Hey, you Buck, wake up!"

    The Call of the Wild Jack London 1896

  • Its door stood ajar, and as the child approached she heard a strange sound, as of some one weeping suppressedly.

    Jewel Clara Louise Burnham 1890

  • Giles had not before observed her, and his eyes now suppressedly looked his pleasure, without the embarrassment that had formerly marked him at such meetings.

    The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

  • A low, murmuring, rushing sound of hundreds of exclaiming voices, all speaking, half-suppressedly, at the same moment, followed the delivery of the answer.

    After Dark Wilkie Collins 1856

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