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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a charming manner; delightfully.

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  • adverb In a charming manner.

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  • adverb in a charming manner

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Examples

  • Step 1: Work in charmingly lo-tech paper-cut animation (a la early-season "South Park").

    ANIMATION OF THE DAY: When Star Wars gets a new director's cut Michael Cavna 2010

  • "I was _charmed_ with it!" said the girl, the word charmingly drawled.

    Home Again George MacDonald 1864

  • Nor does it offer any sort of illicit visuals possibly conjured by the title; “dirty pictures” is simply what Shulgin calls the charmingly classic and precise molecular compound illustrations he draws on his amber-colored drug bottles.

    Weekend Weirdness SXSW Trailer and Review: Dirty Pictures | /Film 2010

  • O'BRIEN: There is a show now on MTV called charmingly enough, "Pimp my Ride."

    CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2004 2004

  • A few weeks ago in London I caught up with Olli Turunen, the Coordinator of International Development Projects at The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation in Finnish, the organization is called the charmingly unpronounceable "Suomen luonnonsuojeluliitto".

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • Sure, to most people Hugh Grant looks like the kind of charmingly demure English gentleman who'd avoid conflict like the plague, but don't make Hugh Grant angry; you wouldn't like him when he's angry – or carrying some baked beans.

    Hugh Grant Escapes Charges For Berserk Bean Attack 2007

  • Fontenette passed from one typical phase of the disorder to another "charmingly" as the doctor said, yet he specially needed just such exceptionally delicate care as his wife was giving him.

    Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884

  • It’s set in 1964 New York City, and the heroine can best be described as charmingly naive.

    Ha on You: An Open Pimp Thread « Whatever 2006

  • It’s set in 1964 New York City, and the heroine can best be described as charmingly naive.

    Ha on You: An Open Pimp Thread « Whatever 2006

  • It passed "charmingly," till a door softly opened behind her, and she saw the shadow on the wall, and some one stood, and passed from behind her.

    Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Maria Edgeworth 1808

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