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Wanly

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wan  (wn)
adj. wan·ner, wan·nest
1. Unnaturally pale, as from physical or emotional distress.
2. Suggestive or indicative of weariness, illness, or unhappiness; melancholy: a wan expression.
intr.v. wanned, wan·ning, wans
To become pale.
[Middle English, pale, gloomy, from Old English wann, gloomy, dark.]
wanly adv.
wanness n.
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Adv.1.Wanlywanly - in a weak or pale or languid manner; "she was smiling wanly"


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The scattered isles Uprose, black-looming o'er the tranquil deeps, Where the reflected heavens wanly showed A lingering gleam.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
I suppose I smiled wanly to myself, or conscience must have been nibbling at my mother, for in less than five minutes she was back, carrying her accomplice openly, and she thrust him with positive viciousness into the place where my Stevenson had lost a tooth (as the writer whom he most resembled would have said).
Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
James's Street illumination, as it may be seen of an early morning, when half the lamps are out, and the others are blinking wanly, as if they were about to vanish like ghosts before the dawn.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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