adv. [f. BLAND a. + -LY2.] In a bland manner; with gently flattering or soothing words or actions; mildly, gently, pleasingly.
1827. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 7. It is seldom so much rugged energy can be so blandly attempered.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, i. 2. Time always flowed … blandly, like the gliding of a full river through a plain.
1863. Landor, Heroic Idylls, Myrtis. Friends whom she lookt at blandly from her couch.
