Adjective : the winning team. ,a winning child; a winning smile. From Dictionary.com.
Come, come, my friend, "winningly," you are no Timon to hold the mass of mankind untrustworthy. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
"Well, I got it for my birthday" I smile winningly. From Wordnik.com. [phelicity Diary Entry] Reference
He smiled winningly at Sarah, then walked out again. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
She fixed her eyes on his face, and smiled winningly. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Lord John smiled winningly as he returned to the table. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
“Oh, yes,” replied Clyde quite simply and winningly. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
When he willed, he could speak winningly, and he did it now. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
"How do you know his name is Lal?" inquired Counsel winningly. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
"There," she said winningly, taking a large forkful of potatoes. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
She put an arm round the little mariner and coaxed winningly: —. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Nicholas smiled winningly, but received no encouragement from the man. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
She smiled reasonably winningly from amidst her bedraggled dark tresses. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
Cromwell nodded and gestured the end of the subject, then smiled winningly. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
At court he talked frankly to men of low rank, winningly to men of high rank. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
(Mr. Abramoff winningly called this the mandate to “bring out the wackos.”). From Wordnik.com. [The Gaud That Failed: A Tour of New Jack City] Reference
“We should send some to Colombia then,” the younger Arango said, winningly. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of a Clinton Conference] Reference
David smiled winningly as he spoke, and the smile took the sting from the words. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
He knew how to spot talent, especially female talent, and how to feature it winningly. From Wordnik.com. [The Showman Who Started It All] Reference
“I thought I would take the liberty of intruding on you,” she said most winningly. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
She offered her hand winningly, but the strange, self-contained young girl ignored it. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
"Surely sending boats is too much of a nuisance," the French commander said winningly. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference
Yet he does it so winningly -- that's the word, I think -- that any jury would acquit him. From Wordnik.com. [William Adolphus Turnpike] Reference
(Probably won't: penises appeared prominently — and winningly — in last year's Superbad.). From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Reels: Friday, April 18: Vanity Fair] Reference
So winningly wry onscreen, Ms. Fisher is best in print when she exposes her emotions candidly. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Leia Still Seeking Her Han Solo] Reference
By the time she's finished, she's lived up go that winningly egotistical lead-off declaration. From Wordnik.com. [David Finkle: The Real Tyne Daly Stands Up at Manhattan's Feinstein's at Loews Regency] Reference
She smiled winningly, said good night and tripped away to her own room, to reappear a moment later. From Wordnik.com. [Cruise To A Wedding]
There's a fair bit of light fiction that plays much more winningly on screen than between book covers. From Wordnik.com. [Not worth the time] Reference
Samantha Brown winningly plays an historical novelist, Hannah Jarvis, who is working in the Coverly archives. From Wordnik.com. ['Arcadia' Proves You Can Still Count on Tom Stoppard] Reference
Juno played winningly by Ellen Page had a hamburger phone and plastic versions were doled out for a winning ticket. From Wordnik.com. [Regina Weinreich: Grounding Up in the Air] Reference
Their motivation and shaping are dexterous and clear, their surfaces varied, their movements winningly true-to-life. From Wordnik.com. [Scrapyard Sculptures Charm, But Bronzed Bodies Disappoint] Reference
"Doreen doesn't want to spend a year in Melbourne, and anyway, you look a lot better in a black leather corset," he'd said winningly. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
And then he flew off into a torrent of French as Carole-anne arranged her decolletage more winningly over the counter and looked sad. From Wordnik.com. [the deer leap]
Terry could not be so winningly attractive as some of these grubby-faced little children pretend, and even imagine themselves, to be. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
His generous appraisals of the critics Hugh Kenner and Donald Davie? both great admirers of Ezra Pound? are warm and winningly eclectic. From Wordnik.com. [Sound and Sense] Reference
Pinnock is expansive, powerful, and expands his selection with Purcell and, more surprisingly, early Haydn, which is winningly excitable. From Wordnik.com. [Handel: Eight Great Harpsichord Suites; Handel, Purcell, Haydn: Suites and Sonatas] Reference
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