charmingly

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1. In a charming manner.

   How charmingly sweet you sing.

   1871, Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

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   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

   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

   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

   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