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"smilingly" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when describing someone's expression or actions in a cheerful, smiling way. For example, "The teacher nodded smilingly, pleased with the student's answer."
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smilingly
adverb
In a smiling manner; with a smile.
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They are always grateful of my trek up the urine-soaked stairwell, and when I leave, the lady will smilingly press a pound coin into my hand and thank me.
In two more cheerful works, both called "My New Breasts," she smilingly displays her reduced bosom.
"I'm a Mormon," say lawyers, scientists and surfers, smilingly directing viewers to the church website.
Smilingly, she kissed it; and, until old age, the most wonderful Voice in a generation never deserted her.
Mr Romney speaks smilingly with him for a half-second of video, communicating a natural ease with people of different backgrounds which by all accounts he is in fact able to maintain for at least half a second at a time.
That was just how Lindy Boggs liked to cook and serve it, too; but so graciously, and smilingly, that you never suspected what was about to hit you.
When Mr Orban reached him, Mr Juncker took his hand smilingly, called him "dictator", and gave him a playful slap in the face.Related topics European Union politics Jean-Claude Juncker Europe European Union HungaryMr Orban gave as good as he got, replying to Mr Juncker with a jaunty "Hallo, Grand Duke".
Posters of the confident, neatly uniformed general smilingly greet motorists on several of Benghazi's main streets.In the aftermath of Younis's assassination, katiba members swear that they answer to the orders of the NTC.
THE receptionist at the office of Chancellor House Holdings in one of Johannesburg's poshest suburbs is smilingly polite but discreet.
He has also wheeled out important friends, such as Warren Christopher, a former secretary of state, and Eli Broad, a property magnate, to predict doom if he goes.Now that the thrill of direct democracy has subsided no more young men with clip-files smilingly approaching you at the supermarket unease has taken its place.
One of the soldiers knows who Whitman was and smilingly lets him through.As a film-maker Mr Benigni continues to be a naïf, but weren't all the great comics?
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