All 5 Uses of
sedate
in
War and Peace
- But all he said was so prettily sedate, and the naivete of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that he disarmed his hearers.†
Chpt 1 *
- "Your offer…." she began at last sedately.†
Chpt 6 *
- All were moving slowly and sedately.†
Chpt 7
- It was on the very fact of being so young that Petya counted for success in reaching the Emperor—he even thought how surprised everyone would be at his youthfulness—and yet in the arrangement of his collar and hair and by his sedate deliberate walk he wished to appear a grown-up man.†
Chpt 9
- But the farther he went and the more his attention was diverted by the ever-increasing crowds moving toward the Kremlin, the less he remembered to walk with the sedateness and deliberation of a man.†
Chpt 9
Definitions:
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(sedate as in: she is sedate) calm -- possibly also dignified
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(sedate as in: sedate her) make calm or drowsy by giving a drug