endearingly

The puppy looked up at me endearingly.

She smiled endearingly at her baby.

He spoke to her in an endearingly gentle tone.

The old couple held hands endearingly as they walked in the park.

The child hugged his teddy bear endearingly.

She laughed endearingly at his silly jokes.

The grandmother told her grandchildren stories endearingly.

The actor's endearingly awkward charm won over the audience.

The cat curled up endearingly on the couch.

He played the guitar endearingly, capturing the hearts of the listeners.

It is an endearingly human gesture but, as a means of keeping dry, almost entirely futile.

I know there are blacks who say, " I can use the N-word because I mean it endearingly."

And if you're squirming or you're laughing or you stood up, or you're beginning to stand, you're speaking the language that I endearingly call " the language of growing up a fat kid." And any body-image issue is a dialect of that language.