cooingly
advEtymology From cooing + -ly.
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In a cooing way.
- "Ruperet," she said, cooingly, "Ruperet, you must be very, very careful."1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 376:
- Unlike Mr. Daniels, Ms. Harden had previously encountered Mr. Gandolfini, whom she almost cooingly described as soulful.2009 March 22, Deborah Sontag, “The Alpha Males of ‘Carnage’”, in New York Times: