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The phrase "shrug lightly" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the specific gesture of raising one's shoulders slightly, often in a nonchalant or dismissive manner. Example: She shrugged lightly, indicating that she didn't know the answer to the question.
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"I don't know," he said, shrugging lightly.
But she just shrugged lightly and said, "It wasn't a kick, it was a step," demonstrating with an insouciant smile.
At a time when people were commonly typed by their religious beliefs and when the charge of godlessness was a serious one, the accusation of placing yourself above the Creator was not to be shrugged off lightly.That Fairchild took his faith to heart and sought to reconcile it with his science is apparent from his will.
Writers of successful series novels do not lightly shrug off the harness.
Some critics say the bank shrugs off too lightly the damage that a strong euro does to European exports.
"I am one of those people who just enjoys living," she says, shrugging her shoulders lightly as she takes her seat in the lobby of a draughty London hotel.
Lightly oily, lightly cut.
For "Come Fly Away" she has dipped only lightly into the well of her past work, employing a few celebrated pas de deux, most spectacularly the tempestuous tug of war to the shrugging anthem of survival "That's Life".
I shrug.
Another shrug.
A shrug.
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