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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smilingly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And smilingly he remained kneeling, as a mark of genuine respect for Howard's beliefs.
▪ But inside the old building she had found the staff reassuringly up to date, and smilingly efficient.
▪ He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening.
▪ He sits on the edge of the bed where Kate lies fenced in by bolsters and proffers it smilingly.
▪ Philippa smilingly obliged and Athelstan groaned.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smilingly

Smilingly \Smil"ing*ly\, adv. In a smiling manner.
--Shak.

Wiktionary
smilingly

adv. In a smiling manner; with a smile.

WordNet
smilingly

adv. with smiles; in a smiling manner; "the girl reminded her smilingly of their childhood spent together" [ant: unsmilingly]

Usage examples of "smilingly".

I stood by the hedge to let her pass, but as soon as she came up to me she asked, smilingly, if I had been interested in the statues.

Lamont Cranston stated so, rather smilingly, when he called on Dariel Talcott.

The aunt would have risen to welcome me, but I prevented her, asked her how she did, and smilingly congratulated her on her company.

When Sheila started an objection, Durand smilingly promised that he would play them one by one.

It was all the same to me, so I smilingly put the three louis in front of the young lady, who still had the ear-rings in her hands.

On the day after next, just as we were sitting down to dinner, the marchioness smilingly gave me a letter which Possano had written her in bad but perfectly intelligible French.

I received him smilingly, and thanked him for the first visit he had paid me in the course of six weeks.

At this she turned to Panin, and said smilingly that she knew someone else who had the same misfortune.

As I had told him my name he shewed me, smilingly, an accusation against me, drawn up by someone who had witnessed the fact.

I answered smilingly that I should be delighted to see him, and I went away after giving my daughter, of whom I felt fond, a tender embrace.

There, the ladies were able to attend to any last- minute ad justments of this or that, and those wearing coats were smilingly requested to remove and leave them.

It had been Sooey Wan who, inveterate gambler himself, nevertheless taught Dan that when a man loses he shall take his losses smilingly and never neglect to pay his debts.

He asked smilingly if the lady took a siesta too, and I replied that we usually took it together.

As we ruefully contemplated a supperless couch, a comely young woman, who had been looking us over from a room in the rear of the bar, came smilingly forward and volunteered to do the best she could for us.

His business was soon transacted, and Herr von Tarow smilingly reminded him that they had met before.