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charmingly en · ADV

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Etymology

Etymology tree English charming Middle English -ly English -ly English charmingly From charming + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a charming manner.
   • 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." 2014 January 9, Jon Blistein, “Watch a Supercut of Wes Anderson's Slow-Motion Scenes”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2014:
   • This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner. 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
   • The Wikilambda developers charmingly admit that they are not very experienced in language design. 2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, →DOI:
   • Donaldson is not by any means one of God’s chosen entertainment-industry stars. He’s not especially handsome, and neither is he particularly funny-looking. At 6ft 5in, and with the sparse reddish beard he nowadays sports, he has the charmingly awkward aspect of a teen who has recently put on a growth spurt and hasn’t quite settled into himself. 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
   • How charmingly sweet you sing. 1871, Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat:

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Translations (7)

fi hurmaavasti (in a charming manner) · ru очаровательно (in a charming manner) · hu elbűvölően (in a charming manner) · es encantadoramente (in a charming manner) · fi viehättävästi (in a charming manner) · pt encantadoramente (in a charming manner) · ca encantadorament (in a charming manner)