whimsically
advEtymology From whimsical + -ly.
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in a whimsical manner
- "Now don't say that this is what you get for bringing a woman along," she said. She smiled at me whimsically, gloriously, and I knew there was no need for forgiveness.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
- As they drew nearer she was whimsically struck by a kind of family likeness between Miss Van Osburgh and Percy Gryce.1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC: