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View definitions for smoothly

smoothly

adverb as in flatly

Strongest match

adverb as in very well

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It’s smooth, it’s velvety, it’s creamy, and when you bite into the beans, they’re falling apart.

Part of McGill’s fee will be a bottle of 147-year-old bourbon that “was so smooth that I imagined a green snake slithering across an emerald lawn” — a fitting description for the entire novel.

Surfactants in makeup and lotions make the product smoother.

While it’s been smooth sailing so far, Grand says he’s prepared if something should go wrong on one of his farming cycles.

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The Morgan Stanley team doesn’t expect a smooth path upwards and noted that significant challenges remain.

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Everything was moving ahead smoothly, and continued to for the rest of the year.

Everything went smoothly, until the end of the second week: the on-board water filtration system failed.

I feel like if we do a couple more records and things are still going smoothly, then we can talk about it.

And George Herbert Walker Bush for smoothly overseeing the end of the Cold War.

He wanted to act, and he would move whatever needed moving in order to keep the process working smoothly.

The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.

After the Reserve Banks have been in operation long enough to be running smoothly, not a few branches will doubtless be organized.

It goes more smoothly than any engine I ever saw, and is very easy and regular in its stroke.

Each article of dress, when taken off, should be placed carefully and smoothly in its proper place.

It 67 was that the piece which reads smoothly seldom acts well; whereas a play that gets over the footlights usually reads poorly.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to smoothly, such as: evenly, fluently, placidly, and sleekly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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