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The sky is clear and the lake placid.placid = calm
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Her eyes were clear and placid.
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An electric tenseness filled the air, but Mr. Jamison's placid face was unchanged by the threat. (source)
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For I was like a well-fed cow in those days, placid, unquestioning. (source)placid = calm and not easily excited
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Hard to the east is the Salton Sea, a placid ocean in miniature, its surface more than two hundred feet below sea level, created in 1905 by a monumental engineering snafu: Not long after a canal was dug from the Colorado River to irrigate rich farmland in the Imperial Valley, the river breached its banks during a series of major floods, carved a new channel, and began to gush unabated into the Imperial Valley Canal. (source)placid = calm
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The Abnegation, normally so placid, speak to one another in tense whispers and glare across the room at the faction that has become our enemy. (source)placid = calm and not easily excited
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They are a contented group, placid and good-natured, although, like any family, they bicker from time to time. (source)placid = calm and not easily excited
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Gilderoy Lockhart was sitting there, humming placidly to himself. (source)placidly = calmly
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Desperation and placidity. (source)placidity = calmness
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"Astonishing!" said Joe, in the placidest way. (source)placidest = calmest
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This is not a plea for placidness of mind or feebleness of spirit.† (source)placidness = the quality of being calmstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Franny unplacidly crossed her legs.† (source)unplacidly = not calmlystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unplacidly means not and reverses the meaning of placidly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Ogawa was a placid man, and though he carried a club, he never used it. (source)placid = calm and not easily excited
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...one evening after Gabriel had been bathed and was lying, for the moment, hugging his hippo placidly in the small crib that had replaced the basket, (source)placidly = calmly
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Her only real comfort was when the child lay in the placidity of sleep. (source)placidity = calmness
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She had hunted Britain over for me; had found me at the hanging-bout outside of London, and had straightway resumed her old place at my side in the placidest way and as of right.† (source)placidest = calmest
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