quietlike

adj, adv — 2 senses

quietlike

adj

Etymology From quiet + -like.

1

Indicative or characteristic of quietness or of being quiet.

  • 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, [...]2007, Richard Boes, The Last Dead Soldier Left Alive:

quietlike

adv

Etymology From quiet + -like.

1

In a quietlike manner; quietly.

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

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