charmingly

English

Etymology

From charming +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

charmingly (comparative more charmingly, superlative most charmingly)

1. In a charming manner.
   • 1871, Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat:

     How charmingly sweet you sing.

   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:

     This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.

   • 2014 January 9, Jon Blistein, “Watch a Supercut of Wes Anderson's Slow-Motion Scenes”, in Rolling Stone‎, archived from the original on 14 January 2014:

     Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."

Translations

in a charming manner

Catalan: encantadorament Finnish: hurmaavasti (fi), viehättävästi (fi) Hungarian: elbűvölően Portuguese: encantadoramente Russian: очаровательно (ru) (očarovatelʹno) Spanish: encantadoramente (es)