Definition of "contemplatively" []

• In a contemplative manner. (adverb)

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• ""Then White Violet -- your sister Cynthia, you know," continued Mr. Hamlin, in easy parenthesis -- "wrote for this?" holding the coin contemplatively in his fingers, "and you calculated to nab it yourself?""
• "She took bites of her cake, pulling the fork slowly, contemplatively from her mouth."
• "Man, mortality sure is humbling, I found myself thinking out there as I strolled contemplatively past the graves of Tuesnelda Langley (1885-1967) and Zerobable Kellum (1808-1878)."