Synonyms:
smilingly
Meaning: with smiles; in a smiling manner; "the girl reminded her smilingly of their childhood spent together"
Usage examples
He greeted them smilingly, and stopped his horse to speak with them.
So, there!" he finished, with a smilingly determined "now-everything-is-just-as-it-was-before" air.
"I will send you my answer to-morrow," she said; and he, the indulgent, confident victor, smilingly granted the delay.
"Phronsie," said Mrs. Whitney, smilingly, stooping over the child, "would you like to see a little pussy I have for you?"
The little Queen of Hearts listened smilingly, but her colour did not come back all evening, until after the archery contest.
Mrs. Hayes greeted them smilingly, but she said that Flora was not well and that Mammy would take her breakfast to her up-stairs.
"The Christmas holidays will soon be here, so a half day out of school will not matter," Mrs. Waite said smilingly, and gave Grace a note for Miss Patten.
The Doctor stopped, smilingly clapped me on the shoulder again, and exclaimed, with a triumph most delightful to behold, as if I had penetrated to the profoundest depths of mortal sagacity, 'My dear young friend, you have hit it.
Child though he knew her to be, he hesitated whether he should call her by her given name, and was taken aback when she smilingly thanked him for doing so, with the assurance that she was often bored with the eternal conventionality of people in her social circle.
They had kicked in a myriad differing ways--wrathfully, sweetly, noisily, softly, smilingly, tearfully, pathetically and patronizingly; but they had all kicked; with the result that woman had now become to George not so much a flaming inspiration or a tender goddess as something to be dodged--tactfully, if possible; but, if not possible, by open flight.