Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With winking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
winking way; with a wink.
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Examples
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If she was doing it "winkingly" how can we ever know when she's not "winking"?
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Either she was serious about these two measures or she was doing "winkingly".
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Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest.
The Comic-Grotesque Goes North Sam Sacks 2011
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What's interesting is not that this attribution is wrong, but that it's so precisely wrong: that quote embodies the opposite of Twain's acerbic, self-deprecating, winkingly ironic wit.
This column will change your life: The wit and wisdom of Mark Twain Oliver Burkeman 2010
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After winkingly reading a single lifted-from-the-headlines monologue joke, Conan quickly introduced his first guest, star of "The Big Bang Theory" Jim Parsons.
Conan O'Brien's 'Show Zero': Host Performs The 'Fastest Talk Show Ever' Online (VIDEO) The Huffington Post 2010
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After winkingly reading a single lifted-from-the-headlines monologue joke, Conan quickly introduced his first guest, star of "The Big Bang Theory" Jim Parsons.
Conan O'Brien's 'Show Zero': Host Performs The 'Fastest Talk Show Ever' Online (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Jones made his fortune as a hip-swinging, winkingly louche purveyor of lounge pop in its purest, giddiest forms.
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Jones made his fortune as a hip-swinging, winkingly louche purveyor of lounge pop in its purest, giddiest forms.
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If a man takes an interest in our work, we can't help but think about the male superior who advised "using our sexuality" to get ahead, or the manager who winkingly asked one of us, apropos of nothing, to "bake me cookies."
Are We There Yet? 2010
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Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions.
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