Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a winning manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a winning manner.
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- adverb In a
winning manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Come, come, my friend, "winningly," you are no Timon to hold the mass of mankind untrustworthy.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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Come, come, my friend, "winningly," you are no Timon to hold the mass of mankind untrustworthy.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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(Final thought: Shonda Rhimes clearly has a thing for long-ago Felicity star Amanda Foreman, who's winningly natural as the wife of the formerly armless guy, and a far cry from the Private Practice psycho who sliced up Violet to get her baby.)
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In the first act, Parrish mostly smiles quite winningly and delivers parables with that exuberant boy-man demeanor the text calls for.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Godspell" Resurrected Michael Giltz 2011
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Her life becomes intertwined with Jennifer Love Hewitt's character, a TV journalist who wants to do a piece about her and becomes enchanted not only with her but with Betty's grandson played winningly by Sean Faris.
Michael Russnow: I Can Die Now, I've Met Betty White: National Treasure Stars in Hallmark Hall of Fame Michael Russnow 2011
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It's out now on BluRay and just as winningly silly as ever.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Malick's Latest Triumph Is Also One For Brad Pitt Michael Giltz 2011
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In a virtuoso turn, Hoffman plays Crabb from teenager to 121-year-old man, and early on, even gets a bath from a sexually repressed Christian lady (played winningly by Faye Dunaway).
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis John Farr 2010
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James Anderson and Graeme Swann clowned for the cameras winningly.
England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards 2011
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In a virtuoso turn, Hoffman plays Crabb from teenager to 121-year-old man, and early on, even gets a bath from a sexually repressed Christian lady (played winningly by Faye Dunaway).
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis John Farr 2010
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It's out now on BluRay and just as winningly silly as ever.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Malick's Latest Triumph Is Also One For Brad Pitt Michael Giltz 2011
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