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    But what astonished mc: Kitsey, who always held my hand at a slight distance — tugging me along behind her, winsomely swinging my arm like a child playing London Bridge—was nestled deep and sorrowfully into his side.†  (source)
    winsomely = in an attractive or appealing manner
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    It was a far different woman from the one at church—the winsome fisher wife serving tea and coffee.†  (source)
    winsome = attractive or appealing
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    If any of them decided to sabotage your bike, they weren't a guest of mine, and are therefore ...He offered a winsome smile.†  (source)
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    These thoughts, these flashes of light, that innocent winsome gesture, this Japanese car—all more or less appropriate to the landscape.†  (source)
    winsome = attractive or appealing
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    Dad shook hands with all the men, patted the children and smiled winsomely at the women.†  (source)
    winsomely = in an attractive or appealing manner
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    He had a peculiar charm, a sort of winsomeness that's pleasant to remember even now when I picture it, though, of course, I think of him still as a schoolboy in cricket flannels.†  (source)
    winsomeness = the quality of being attractive or appealing
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    To Beowulf was given Glory in battle; Grendel from thenceward Must flee and hide him in the fen-cliffs and marshes, Sick unto death, his dwelling must look for 30 Unwinsome and woful; he wist the more fully {The monster flees away to hide in the moors.†  (source)
    Unwinsome = not attractive or appealing
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unwinsome means not and reverses the meaning of winsome. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    She gave me a winsome smile.†  (source)
    winsome = attractive or appealing
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    She would name each item that struck her fancy in the window and if I was not moved by its charm she would winsomely explain why I should be charmed and we would continue our walk.†  (source)
    winsomely = in an attractive or appealing manner
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    Because the reporter was rapidly becoming a man something of his man's appeal, combined with the winsomeness of the boy, stirred the heart of the lonely woman.†  (source)
    winsomeness = the quality of being attractive or appealing
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    I say phony because Mosby, a Virginia colonel, was not related to me in the slightest way; the story, however, was both passably authentic and colorful and I told it with drawling embellishments and winsome sidelights and bravura touches, savoring each dramatic effect and in the end turning on such slick medium-voltage charm that Leslie, eyes ashine, reached up and grasped my hand as she had at Coney Island, and I felt her palm a little moist with desire, or so it seemed.†  (source)
    winsome = attractive or appealing
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    It was after a meal, she was standing in the dining room with both hands in the pockets of her sweater, trying to carry on a conversation with another patient, an acquaintance from the lounging arcade presumably, struggling in a most charming way, as Hans Castorp could hear, to speak German; and he suddenly discovered a pride in his own mother tongue that he had never known before—and, simultaneously, an urge to sacrifice that pride to the enchantment that filled him at the sound of her winsomely bungled, broken stammering.†  (source)
    winsomely = in an attractive or appealing manner
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    The features were of great beauty, almost girlish in modeling, and Conway found in their winsomeness a curiously personal appeal, even across the barriers of time, death, and artifice.†  (source)
    winsomeness = the quality of being attractive or appealing
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