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smiling

Definition for smiling

adjective as in beaming

Strongest matches

cheerful, genial, radiant, shining

Strong matches

animated, grinning, sparkling

Weak matches

joyful, sunny

adjective as in benign

adjective as in fair

adjective as in good-humored

adjective as in sunny

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Example Sentences

Like any exciting meal, Food will leave you smiling and satisfied.

In another, they sit smiling inside their Los Angeles apartment at a messy kitchen table.

The “new civility” promoted by Antoine Courtin expected the mouth to be kept shut when smiling.

Each time he mentions a story point or repeats an exchange of dialogue, he glances up to see if she's smiling.

Anyway, Hurley magically built a career from it, and is still smiling and siren-ing.

She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.

“My sister is passionately fond of children,” said the elder lady, in smiling apology.

Blanche stood an instant looking into the lighted room and hesitating—flushed a little, smiling, extremely pretty.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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