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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noiselessly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He smiled and noiselessly moved back across the thick carpet, slipped under the sheets and into the researcher's bed.
▪ It was moving very fast, and noiselessly over the snowy road.
▪ Less than half an hour later she cleaned the brush in white spirit and pressed the lid of the tin noiselessly down.
▪ Lightning flickered noiselessly in the western sky.
▪ Shadowy shapes changed position, flying noiselessly, giving brief glimpses.
▪ Then it felt as though the world was sliding inside-out as, slowly, noiselessly, a panel swivelled in her mind.
▪ There are also four manner adverbs in -ly: indistinctly, heavily, insignificantly, and noiselessly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noiselessly

Noiseless \Noise"less\, a. Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time.

So noiseless would I live.
--Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.

Wiktionary
noiselessly

adv. In a quiet manner, without any noise.

WordNet
noiselessly

adv. without a sound; "he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door" [syn: soundlessly]

Usage examples of "noiselessly".

Noiselessly she conducted them into the great hall, bade them resume possession of their arms, and gave each a golden ring, of dwarf manufacture, to enable them to see their tiny foes, who were else invisible to all of mortal birth.

Alastair Bing, was reassured by a nod, and, opening the door for the four men, for the doctor came too, he followed them out, and closed the door noiselessly behind him.

Towards the end of one Boshy drew the pillow from beneath the head and the cover over the face of the man on the bed, scrutinized the child sleeping on the one opposite, then, for him, noiselessly took the lamp into the outer room.

Arrived some cables-length from the cetacean, the speed slackened, and the oars dipped noiselessly into the quiet waters.

It was just the car moving noiselessly down the curbed roadbed that ran parallel to the sidewalk.

Sarah started slightly when a little dumpy woman with grey hair and twinkling eyes stepped noiselessly into the kitchen from the front-room.

He heard no sound, but he felt a slight draught as Foon Koo noiselessly opened a secret trap in the wall.

The warm fumy liquor choked him, but he forced down gulp after gulp, and when he knew that one more drop would undo all his labor he let the nearly empty bottle fall noiselessly into a thick green bush.

As I watched, the evening wind came down, scouring the ruin, and the shadow of a stool collapsed noiselessly into ash, flurries of soot and char moving ghostlike over the ground.

She noiselessly laughed for joy to be, however unworthily, the daughter of Gideon Hayle, never doubting it was for his name, his blood, his likeness, she stood thus approved.

It came upon him face to face, trotting as noiselessly as Lok, a heavy-maned, full-grown male.

Cameron noiselessly made his way to the cellar half an hour later, it was to find Rose squirming about in her restless anxiety, and the sight of her lusciously rounded firm young body tensing and straddled at his mercy was one calculated to stir his carnal appetites to extreme.

He returned to the bedroom, turned the key noiselessly, pulled the automatic out of his waistband, and stepped into the garden, moving fast and making no more noise than a cat.

She padded noiselessly down the hall on a thin carpet of an exotic kilin design, practically the only sign of luxury in the otherwise drab and dingy little apartment.

And the scent of leather came to her now as poignantly as if she were once more flitting about noiselessly on her business of nursing.