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Meaning of unwinkingly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

Without winking; with one's full attention.

not-comparable

Examples

“Certainly Miss Mann had a formidable eye for one of the softer sex: it was prominent, and showed a great deal of the white, and looked as steadily, as unwinkingly, at you as if it were a steel ball soldered in her head; […]”
“But Miss Marley had dispensed with the inspirations of reverie, and now composed herself for some rational conversation with Jasper, who sat very erect, with his black beads of eyes fixed unwinkingly on Miss Marley.”
“As we sped effortlessly along at a steady 75-80 m.p.h., with the three vertical lights of a clear aspect shining unwinkingly on the ground glass of the cab signal, our engineer lolled back in his chair and leisurely lit a huge cigar; [...].”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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