winsome
adjective
sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging.
winsomely
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a word derived from
winsome.
Example Sentences
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He was smart, winsomely geeky, and uncommonly kind, and he had a thing for brainy women.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
The script is tweaked for the Hub Theatre’s production in Fairfax, where Tia Shearer winsomely plays Dawkins and asks us to go along with the switch.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2017
Arbus was also winsomely charming, intuitively sympathetic and bracingly intelligent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2016
Layla Claire and Paul Appleby, as the young lovers Marenka and Jenik, were winsomely moony together and playfully potent apart.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2011
Dad shook hands with all the men, patted the children and smiled winsomely at the women.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
