Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a grinning manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a grinning manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With a
grin .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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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.
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The harshest critique I heard was from my dad, who grinningly said "It sounds like you're having too much fun."
Interview: Michael Arnzen odysseyworkshop 2009
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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.
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
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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.
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
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"The hour," they said, as José Antonio Reyes grinningly paraded his rojiblanco Rolex, "has come."
Atlético's great expectations grounded by brilliance of Barcelona 2010
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Dreams in which Billy wore a Postal Service uniform and grinningly accompanied the mailman on his hellishly appointed rounds.
Baby Games Chelsea White 2010
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Instead, he grinningly provokes it, chanting and waving about for it to fight.
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Landa is a recognizably human figure of pure evil, a grinningly personable and coldly effective killer.
Inglourious Basterds Movie Review: Ambitious, Exciting, Awkward and…Soulful? | /Film 2009
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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.
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