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unwinkingly

unwinkingly adverb: without winking; with one's full attention.

Adverb

unwinkingly (not comparable)

  1. Without winking; with one's full attention.
    • Certainly Miss Mann had a formidable eye for one of the softer sex: it was prominent, and showed a great deal of the white, and looked as steadily, as unwinkingly, at you as if it were a steel ball soldered in her head; […]1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 261
    • But Miss Marley had dispensed with the inspirations of reverie, and now composed herself for some rational conversation with Jasper, who sat very erect, with his black beads of eyes fixed unwinkingly on Miss Marley.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128

Origin of unwinkingly

From unwinking + -ly.

Questions about unwinkingly

What does unwinkingly mean?
Unwinkingly means without winking; with one's full attention.
What part of speech is unwinkingly?
Unwinkingly is an adverb.

Words near unwinkingly in the dictionary

  1. unwindy
  2. Unwinese
  3. Unwinesque
  4. unwinged
  5. unwinking
  6. unwinkingly
  7. unwinnability
  8. unwinnable
  9. unwinnably
  10. unwinning
  11. unwinnowed

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