toothlessly

adv

toothlessly

adv

Etymology From toothless + -ly.

1

In a toothless way; without teeth.

A wrinkled old woman, pulling a little wagon full of kindling, turned to smile toothlessly up at him a at the sound of his artless tenor.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter II, page 275:

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