Restrainedly

Of course, make a rule, and a dozen exceptions will leap to their feet and gently, restrainedly protest … ❋ Unknown (2009)

The laugh tittered and rippled through. clubs and social circles, was restrainedly merry in the editorial columns, and broke out in loud guffaws in the comic weeklies .. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I really enjoy being pointedly restrained (restrainedly pointed?). ❋ Unknown (2005)

I could only say, doubtingly and restrainedly — “You have something to tell me.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

I understood why the sweet sensitive lips smiled so rarely and so restrainedly now, and why the clear blue eyes looked at me, sometimes with the pity of an angel, sometimes with the innocent perplexity of a child. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Abbot Radulfus added his own plea, very restrainedly. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1982)

Combined with the refined and rich decor, the whole effect was restrainedly elegant. ❋ Delamere, Wanda (1982)

He did like roast tubers, but restrainedly took only a small one. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- (1979)

The masters he followed expressed themselves as restrainedly as those he turned his back on. ❋ Unknown (1976)

In dealing with the conditions on a distant and inaccessible world the farthest flight of imagination might fall short of the reality, but I have preferred to treat these matters somewhat restrainedly. ❋ Mark Wicks (N/A)

They shook hands restrainedly, and the Ermetyne sauntered out again. ❋ James H. Schmitz (1946)

"Hoppy," said the Saint restrainedly, "stop that god-awful noise and take your boy friend inside." ❋ Charteris, Leslie (1937)

Pauline was smiling, but restrainedly, and much as a woman does in condoning the naughtiness of her child. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

Even Mrs. Sharp, who writes so restrainedly about this question of dual personality, believes the analytical faculty belonged to William Sharp, the imaginative to "Fiona Macleod." ❋ Cornelius Weygandt (1914)

The laugh tittered and rippled through clubs and social circles, was restrainedly merry in the editorial columns, and broke out in loud guffaws in the comic weeklies. ❋ Unknown (1910)

To speak restrainedly, it was a shock -- a shock which I shall remember as long as I live. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)