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Definition of Blushingly
1. adv. In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
Definition of Blushingly
1. Adverb. In an blushing manner; in a manner that evokes a blush. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blushingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blushingly
Literary usage of Blushingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"And this deed I you dared to perpetrate in the very harbor of Charleston, within
a few yards of the shore, un- blushingly, in the face of open day. ..."
2. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... Diana's timorous limbs ;— A fold of lawny mantle dabbling swims Made Ariadne's
cheek look blushingly. Thus I remember all the pleasant flow Of words at ..."
3. The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: A Long-vacation Pastoral by Arthur Hugh Clough (1848)
"... and what was the Gaelic for pretty ; How in confusion he shouldered his
knapsack, yet blushingly stammered, Waving a hand to the lassie, that blushingly ..."
4. International Library of Masterpieces, Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts edited by Harry Thurston Peck (1901)
"... How in confusion he shouldered his knapsack, yet blushingly stammered, Waving
a hand to the lassie, that blushingly bent o'er the porridge, ..."
5. An Inverted Sort of Prayer by Chris F. Needham (2006)
"Sighing, he played with the worn rim of his Indian Motorcycles cap until the
waitress crept up, blushingly eager to take his order. ..."
6. The Biography of a New York Hotel Scrub by Ada Blom (1909)
"blushingly I left the stage to read my first love letter. My future husband
belonged to a large firm in Amsterdam, Holland. He belonged to a diamond concern ..."
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