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Definition of Harmlessly
1. Adverb. In a harmless manner. "This is a harmlessly childish game"
Definition of Harmlessly
1. Adverb. In a harmless manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Harmlessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harmlessly
Literary usage of Harmlessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"One of the bullets whistled harmlessly over his head. Another cut off the fingers
of his right hand. The third and last passed through his neck and lodged ..."
2. Austria: Vienna, Prague, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube; Galicia, Styria by Johann Georg Kohl (1844)
"... harmlessly, as on the occasion I have described, where the prudence and humanity
of the commander prevented the bloodshed, which, ..."
3. Mental Development in the Child by William T. Preyer (1893)
"Children ought not to be disturbed when they are playing harmlessly, without
imperative reasons. ..."
4. Tea Table Talk by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1903)
""Heavens, yes!" cried the Minor Poet. "That is how one knows it is Folly—if we
can kill it. Against the Truth our arrows rattle harmlessly. ..."
5. Southern Italy and Sicily: With Excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"... almost all of which again fall within the crater or roll harmlessly down the
Sciara, a slope descending on the NW at an angle of 35° and continued for ..."
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