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lightly
adverb as in gently, effortlessly
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He enters Colburn’s 400-capacity Zipper Hall, where he will debut it on Dec. 3, with the case slung lightly on his back.
But Dharmendra wore his stardom lightly, staying away from the rat race and said he never wanted to be number one in the industry.
So, this particular gravy was a lightly sweetened pan sauce — aromatic, comforting and thickened with nuts instead of flour.
While this book is nominally about a single architect’s career and accomplishments, readers will also learn a great deal about the wider Renaissance from this deft account, which wears its deep scholarship lightly.
A security guarantee, which means potentially committing U.S. troops to war, is also nothing to take lightly.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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