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wanly

[ UK /wˈænli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a weak or pale or languid manner
    she was smiling wanly

How To Use wanly In A Sentence

  • The mood in Haiti today reminds one of the wanly flickering orange glow of the kerosine lamps that Haiti's market women - known as ti machann - use to illuminate their wares as they work late into the night. Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
  • Georgia smiled wanly, her eyes still resting on her pouchy sweater, expanding and retracting with each breath. Georgia’s Kitchen
  • The stubbles straggle wanly sunwards, and the falling leaves rustle to the earth, with a sound as of errant silkworms. Hunger
  • All you want to do now, apart from sip wanly at the dregs of that satisfying Shiraz, is stump upstairs and crash into a nicely turned down bed.
  • she was smiling wanly
  • She felt as though he was performing the preliminaries for a wrestling match, but smiled wanly till he let her go and moved over to Alpiew. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Rattling Hawk smiles briefly and wanly, and says something to Gary.
  • Visitors spiral up a walled and plushly carpeted ramp and enter the wanly illuminated exhibition spaces in the former Reading Room beneath Sydney Smirke's 1857 glass-and-cast-iron dome. Sublime Sketches Rarely Seen
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