Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a grinning manner.
Wiktionary
- adv. With a grin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a grinning manner.
Etymologies
- grinning + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The harshest critique I heard was from my dad, who grinningly said "It sounds like you're having too much fun.”
“He seized it with his left hand, with a quick pull and twist wrenched it off, and grinningly tossed it, as a joke, into the pandanus basket which still his wife with one hand held before him while with the other she clutched her forehead bleeding from a flying fragment of pistol.”
“It's silly and patronising and, anyway, even the most witless bores in society have long since moved on to grinningly saying "simples" in a daft foreign accent at the end of their sentences.”
“A glamorous adventure-woman, she was pictured in sepia photos wearing all manner of dapper outfits: grinningly flying planes and sailing sloops; giggling atop tall mountains; grimacing in thickest jungle; and jovially smoking pipes while waving swords and spears of all sizes.”
“The hour," they said, as José Antonio Reyes grinningly paraded his rojiblanco Rolex, "has come.”
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“Dreams in which Billy wore a Postal Service uniform and grinningly accompanied the mailman on his hellishly appointed rounds.”
“Instead, he grinningly provokes it, chanting and waving about for it to fight.”
“Landa is a recognizably human figure of pure evil, a grinningly personable and coldly effective killer.”
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“In 2008, however, having exiled himself for a decade -- long enough for even hard-core politix watchers to forget how arrogantly and evilly he acts when he has power -- look for him at the Bisquick Pancake Presidential Primary Flip-off (I love whoever invented that name) in New Hampshire, grinningly jostling a frying pan, sandwiched between Giuliani and Rice.”
“Silently and grinningly, he bears the pain and discomfort that is always wriggling in his consciousness like some alien indestructible life form.”
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