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CHARMINGLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a charming manner
Classified under:
Pertainym:
charming (pleasing or delighting)
Context examples:
What Julia calls “society”, I see; among it Mr. Jack Maldon, from his Patent Place, sneering at the hand that gave it him, and speaking to me of the Doctor as “so charmingly antique”.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But she is charmingly recovered.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
With what a demure assumption of being immensely older and wiser than I, the fairy little woman said I was a silly boy; and then laughed so charmingly that I forgot the pain of being called by that disparaging name, in the pleasure of looking at her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When they had all talked a little while in harmony of the weather and Mrs. Weston, she found herself abruptly addressed with, Do not you think, Miss Woodhouse, our saucy little friend here is charmingly recovered?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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