expansively
advEtymology From expansive + -ly.
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In an expansive manner.
- 'Sad business, isn't it?' remarked the manager expansively. 'Patient any better today, sir?'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
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