wanly's Usage Examples:

cover: decked out in a mummified paisley tux and frilly shirt, smiling wanly, Jerry Lee looks like Liberace's sickly younger brother, while a few teenagers.

The result is a thin, wanly structured film that, after an OK start, stumbles about, filling time until.

playing Paolo (Cameo) David Rooney of Variety noted on 10 September 2006, "wanly conceived effort looks an unlikely bet for significant bigscreen dates".

like a series of photographs blown up to life-size and for a moment made wanly animate.

as a murder mystery, ham-handed as comedy, clubfooted as dance, at best wanly pleasant as music.

Bernal looks stunned after his first glimpse of his niece, but he smiles wanly when Ollie looks for approval.

gently, the tempo is mid, and Dido has never sounded more listless as she wanly informs her man that their relationship can't flourish unless she's free.

film writing, "[I]ts tone is relentlessly earnest, its meanings limited or wanly inspirational, and my emotions, rather than well[ed] up, remained small.