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dashingly

/ˈdæʃɪŋli/
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Do something dashingly, and you'll carry it off with style and confidence. If your date is dressed dashingly in a tuxedo, you may regret your decision to wear shorts and flip flops.

Some people just seem to do everything in an effortless, attractive way — in other words, dashingly. You might dream of moving dashingly across a dance floor or making dashingly romantic gestures that instantly charm others. This old-fashioned adverb stems from dashing, originally defined as "performed with dash," and by the early 19th century synonymous with the slang phrase "cutting a dash," or "acting brilliantly."

Definitions of dashingly
  1. adverb
    in a highly fashionable manner
    “he was dashingly handsome”
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