"winkiness" meaning in English

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          "text": "Resplendent, happy and glorious, appeared our Princess and our Prince! and mightily enjoying the feast of music prepared for them in small parcels, sat all the Royalties and Attracting Magnates; while the great officers of State (in such a state, too! with the thermometer at ninety-five degrees in the electric light shade, if any) watched, lynx-eyed, yet with the gentle winkiness of the cooing turtle-dove.",
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          "text": "Very few people duped or abused his confidence, for he knew how to uncover lies with extraordinary sagacity; but even that did not irritate him: “The poor wretch,” he often said to us with his delightful smile, “the poor wretch thought that he was deceiving me; but I read falsehood on his face and divined it from the trembling of a little muscle down there in the corner of the mouth which I know very well; it was made known to me also by the ‘winkiness’ of his eyes; there was a moment when I was on the point of betraying myself. Pshaw! he ’s an unhappy creature all the same.”",
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          "ref": "1915 October, Rose O’Neill, “The Kewpies and Little Hieronimous”, in Good Housekeeping Magazine, volume LXI, number 4, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, pages 442–443:",
          "text": "His cheeks showed plump and pleasant pinkiness, / His hair a fascinating kinkiness; / Droll was his left eye’s lurking winkiness, / But, dears, his little brain lacked thinkiness!",
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          "ref": "2001 June 7–13, Jodi Ramer, “Bitch, bitch, bitch: Tripartite Amores Perros as vast and complex as Mexico City”, in Andrew Hanon, editor, SEE Magazine, number 392, Edmonton, Alta.: Gazette Press Ltd., →ISSN, page 38:",
          "text": "The Tarantino comparison is obvious, thought it reduces Amores Perros to imply that it’s some kind of Latin Pulp Fiction — the former has a more serious dramatic agenda, and none of the self-satisfied winkiness that makes Tarantino fun but also a pernicious progenitor of empty ironizing ad infinitum.",
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