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Wantonly vs Smicker - What's the difference?

wantonly | smicker |

As an adverb wantonly

is in a wanton manner.

As an adjective smicker is

elegant; fine; gay.

As a verb smicker is

to look amorously or wantonly; smirk.

wantonly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • in a wanton manner
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=8 citation , passage=I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly .}}

    See also

    * wontedly

    smicker

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Elegant; fine; gay.
    • No, his deep-reaching spirit could not brook The fond addiction to such vanity; Regardful of his honour he forsook The smicker use of court-humanity. — John Ford.
  • Amorous; wanton.
  • Spruce; smart.
    • A smicker''' boy, a lither swain, Heigh ho, a '''smicker swain, That his love was wanton fain, [...] — Lodge.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To look amorously or wantonly; smirk.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)