smilingly
Example Sentences
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She poked fun at the incident with her staffer in an ad, smilingly asking a group of whiteboard-wielding supporters behind her to “please get out of my shot.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Angus O’Brien as the smilingly unhinged Hicks is a memorably mad recruit who stirs things up for no reason but his own amusement, and ours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
"But are we going to talk about football?" the Real Madrid forward smilingly responded.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024
The soldiers smilingly told people they had come to “liberate them.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2022
In the schoolyard the boys begged rides, and Jody smilingly agreed.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
