CHARMINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does charmingly mean? 

• CHARMINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb CHARMINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a charming manner

  Familiarity information: CHARMINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARMINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a charming manner

Pertainym:

charming (pleasing or delighting)

 Context examples 

Besides which, she is so charmingly ugly, relapsing into languor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You are charmingly grouped, and appear to uncommon advantage.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The morning had passed away so charmingly as to banish all her friendship and natural affection, for no thought of Isabella or James had crossed her during their walk.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“Well,” said Emma, willing to let it pass—“you want to hear about the wedding; and I shall be happy to tell you, for we all behaved charmingly.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Not being a genius, like Keats, it won't kill me, she said stoutly, and I've got the joke on my side, after all, for the parts that were taken straight out of real life are denounced as impossible and absurd, and the scenes that I made up out of my own silly head are pronounced 'charmingly natural, tender, and true'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You came through them charmingly, sir!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“You forget how much she belongs to Highbury. I have heard her every year of our lives since we both began. She plays charmingly.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A more considerable degree of wandering attended the third repetition; and, after completing the fourth, she immediately added, Only think, my dear, of my having got that frightful great rent in my best Mechlin so charmingly mended, before I left Bath, that one can hardly see where it was.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

After this, Meg had Mr. Scott to dinner by special invitation, and served him up a pleasant feast without a cooked wife for the first course, on which occasion she was so gay and gracious, and made everything go off so charmingly, that Mr. Scott told John he was a lucky fellow, and shook his head over the hardships of bachelorhood all the way home.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)