SMILINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smilingly mean? 

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

1. with smiles; in a smiling manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMILINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With smiles; in a smiling manner

Context example:

the girl reminded her smilingly of their childhood spent together

Antonym:

unsmilingly (without smile; in an unsmiling manner)

 Context examples 

“I am not afraid of you,” said he, smilingly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“’You hardly behave as if your purse had been touched,” she said, smilingly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Meg was asked at once, and the tight slippers tripped about so briskly that none would have guessed the pain their wearer suffered smilingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With the view of passing off an awkward moment, Emma smilingly said, You must make my apologies to your friend; but so good a charade must not be confined to one or two.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her aunt asked her, smilingly, how she liked it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He regarded her smilingly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)