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词汇 grinning
释义 grinning
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈɡrɪn.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɡrɪn.ɪŋ/
having a wide smile:
We looked from one grinning face to another.
He played the role of the chatty, grinning leader.
Related word
grinverb
He looked up and found himself staring into the other man's grinning face.
It was a balloon with a big, grinning face on the side.
People have had enough of seeing her grinning face on the television.
It was Christmas wrapping paper covered in gaudy, grinning Santas.
His grinning black-and-white picture was projected onto the wall.
He was a wrinkled, grinning, barefoot character who sold fish to tourists.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Laughing and smiling
a gleam in your eyeidiom
amused
be all smilesidiom
be in convulsionsidiom
be rolling in the aislesidiom
be wreathed in smilesidiom
burst
crease
dissolve
gale
giggle
giggler
gigglingly
giggly
piss yourself (laughing)idiom
quake
rictus
say cheeseidiom
simper
smile
grinning
verb
uk /ˈɡrɪn.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɡrɪn.ɪŋ/
present participle ofgrin

Examples of grinning


grinning
A besotted swell, grinning fatuously in his top hat, lolls semiconscious in his carriage.
I know: they send me their magazine, and there they all are, grinning expensively from their shiny pages.
A fourth image has him grinning at the camera.
Better make love in a park, with what privacy one can find, than with grinning relatives around !
I do not know that it shows any sign of intelligence that you are grinning.
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When they start grinning, it does not help.
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It is all very well his grinning idiotically.
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It gives the poor landowner a little cash in pocket, but a very little cash, and it leaves the tenant grinning from ear to ear.
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Take, for instance, the poster illustrating a man in battle dress, grinning from ear to ears fiddling with his gaiters.
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The lawyers are grinning all over their faces.
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This is a serious matter, but he is grinning all over his face.
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He was grinning from ear to ear and thought that he had landed on something new.
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One can understand a grinning ape, but one cannot understand a grinning human when there is poverty and destitution and hardship.
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You have been doing it all the morning—grinning and laughing.
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I find it perturbing that he is not only grinning in a somewhat unendearing fashion but is chewing something.
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