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adv. - In a mildly insane manner.

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Usage examples (19)
  • Adjective, : balmy weather. ,balmy leaves. ,balmy plants; a balmy shrub
  • "Hush!" she whispered most gently, glancing toward her father, now balmily sleeping.
  • Poppa looked guardedly round at me, but by this time I was asleep in my camp chair, the air was so balmily cool after our hot rattle to Como.
  • And then in the morning the air would be more balmily insulting than ever.
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