acquiescently
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I nodded acquiescently, but didn’t make the questions any easier.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
Mrs. Dudley was still for a minute and then, moving her head acquiescently, turned and walked deliberately across the kitchen to a farther doorway.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
I was at a loss how to meet it—whether to be indignant and order him out, or to be acquiescently non-committal.
From The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott
"Heap better," said Flor acquiescently, and beginning to hold a whistling colloquy with the hidden voice.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various
Smiling acquiescently, therefore, this person returned in their midst, and receiving a new weapon, his own club having been absent-mindedly mislaid, he again set forth warily to the encounter.
From The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah
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