The word "grinning" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe a facial expression. For example, "The cat was grinning mischievously as it knocked a glass off the counter."
Someone else will be faking a feud with Sharon Osbourne, or comparing black contestants to Lenny Henry, or just grinning inanely into space like some sort of bussed-in competition winner.
"So you're resting, are you?" they chortle, before grinning at the sheer brilliance of their repartee.
Poised, coiffed and grinning, Sturgeon was in demand for a string of selfies.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.55am Biden:55 'Biden risked losing viewers by constantly laughing, grinning and smirking' – Ewen MacAskill.
Their Uruguayan counterparts, six feet across the same room, were watching football with their feet up and were astonished to see anyone at that time of night, least of all three British travellers and their wildly grinning Syrian taxi driver.
He might seem like a grinning, platitude-spewing gonk parked superfluously on the end of the judging table, but I've got a sneaky feeling Louis Walsh is actually the beating heart of X Factor.
This was the Ponting of Trent Bridge '05, the grinning Duncan Fletcher's object of fun from the England players' balcony as the skipper left, fuming, run out by the sub Gary Pratt, a specialist fielder he reckoned had been deliberately planted in dubious circumstances.
She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
Beautiful photographs, accompanied by Billy Bragg songs, were shown – images of women staffing soup kitchens, men on the picket lines, gorgeous, grinning children who will now be middle-aged.
Grinning wildly, Meilutyte perched on the lane rope and lifted her arms wide to the 17,000 roaring fans in the steeply raked wings of seating.
Whatever effect it had on the morale of the striking miners, the photograph of Scargill's arrest did less to win support from the public than a picture of a grinning picket wearing the sort of comedy police helmet on sale in shops along Blackpool's Golden Mile.
