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grinningly

grinningly adverb: with a grin.

Adverb

grinningly (comparative more grinningly, superlative most grinningly)

  1. With a grin.
    • Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 21
    • But EastEnders has also just been blessed by the appearance of Walford Community Church. A group of intrepid church planters apparently sent from the planet Throg are meeting in Albert Square. Unfortunately they really do put the old cringometer in the red: a grinningly picture-perfect group in...2001, Jeff Lucas, “Revival in Walford”, in Lucas on Life, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: Authentic Lifestyle, published 2003, →ISBN, page 31

Forms of grinningly

comparativemore grinningly
superlativemost grinningly

Origin of grinningly

From grinning + -ly.

Questions about grinningly

What does grinningly mean?
Grinningly means with a grin.
What part of speech is grinningly?
Grinningly is an adverb.

Words near grinningly in the dictionary

  1. grinnin'
  2. grinning
  3. grinning and bearing it
  4. grinning from ear to ear
  5. grinning like a mule eating briars
  6. grinningly
  7. grinnings
  8. grinny
  9. grins
  10. grins and bears it
  11. grins and giggles

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