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adv. - With barely repressed anger.

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  • `I can't wait,' she answered smolderingly
  • He's far more smolderingly handsome than that pic gives him credit for.
  • Mariah Gale's Juliet knows her own mind, and is seldom soppy -- even in the (smolderingly convincing) love scenes.
  • Greenberg's flute was again the protagonist, with its lonely bird in flight supported by the strings in the "Quena" movement, a languorous singer in its "Canción," and a Latin...
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