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And it often travels so lightly that you can forget you are clothed in its benefits.

“We do not take attacks on our police officers lightly,” Bratton said.

Snow fell lightly Wednesday as a League member standing in front of City Hall read the demands.

On a lightly floured board, roll each pastry to an 11-inch square.

Future lives, careers and attitudes were being determined in this lightly regulated fever.

He heard himself saying lightly, though with apparent lack of interest: 'How curious, Lettice, how very odd!

We have said it had been lightly laden at starting, which was the reason of the tremendous pace at which it travelled.

He rose and kissed her lightly on the forehead, experience teaching him to avoid a stray hair from the carefully built coiffure.

Its tiny wreath of smoke curled lightly about her, mounting up in the warm, bright room.

She slept lightly at first, half awake and drowsily attentive to the things about her.

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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lightly, such as: casually, delicately, easily, faintly, freely, and gingerly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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