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UK
/smˈaɪlɪŋli/
]
[ US /ˈsmaɪɫɪŋɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈsmaɪɫɪŋɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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with smiles; in a smiling manner
the girl reminded her smilingly of their childhood spent together
How To Use smilingly In A Sentence
- With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep.
- When I complained about how long we'd had to wait for our food, the bill was whisked away and smilingly returned without the service charge.
- Embrace the change smilingly: You will taste different things, won't it?
- The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries. Half a Dozen Girls
- The old peasant said to me smilingly, A good beginning makes a good ending.
- A rod said to a flame smilingly, " hug me!
- The shelled serpentine walks were bordered with low, closely clipped cassina hedges; clusters of white and rose oleander, scarlet geraniums, roses of countless variety, beds of verbena of every hue, and patches of brilliant annuals, all looked up smilingly at him. Beulah
- At the prison door, while fetters were being fastened on his legs he smilingly said, "I fear me I shall be overproud of my boots. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
- Pulling up before the general store, Grace dismounted and elbowed her way through a crowd of men, smilingly demanding "gangway," which was readily granted, though accompanied by quite personal remarks about her, to which, of course, the Overland girl gave not the slightest heed. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods
- But as we took our seats and smilingly waved to one another across the auditorium, we became aware that we had been infiltrated by several square-looking, heavyset men.