charmingly
advEtymology From charming + -ly.
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In a charming manner.
- How charmingly sweet you sing.1871, Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat:
- This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
3 more examples
- Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."2014 January 9, Jon Blistein, “Watch a Supercut of Wes Anderson's Slow-Motion Scenes”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2014:
- Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself.2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
- The Wikilambda developers charmingly admit that they are not very experienced in language design.2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, →DOI: