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winsome

[win-suhm] / ˈwɪn səm /


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Unlike Colossus, it wouldn’t be scary but winsome.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Like Camille and her winsome wooden chair, it’s easy to see something striking and convince ourselves that having it will change our lives and make everything easier.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Baram’s winsome self-deprecation felt like a perfect match for the cast of this off-kilter comedy Skinner was assembling.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

The young actors are winsome but inexperienced, too often forced to wrangle improbably precocious turns of phrase.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

“Mommy,” she said, in that willful, winsome, half-whine of hers, triumphantly smiling at having caught her parents in an intimate pose, “the spiders are still crawling all around.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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