winsomely

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But in the first two seasons, those journeys added up to a winsomely cockeyed portrait of a metropolis that’s seldom received its due in pop culture despite its outsize cultural contributions.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2022

He was smart, winsomely geeky, and uncommonly kind, and he had a thing for brainy women.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018

“You’re not getting anything,” he snaps at nine-year-old Brennan-Jobs when she asks winsomely if she can have his Porsche when he’s done.

From The Guardian • Sep. 1, 2018

Mr. Brammall is, per usual, the straight man, offering futile protests in response to Stokes’s winsomely idiotic and offensive riffs.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2018

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