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Definition of Gushily
1. gushy [adv] - See also: gushy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gushily
Literary usage of Gushily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern American Plays by George Pierce Baker (1920)
"CAROLINE. Well, if you're not, what do you care? SUSAN. [gushily.] People are
talking about you and Lawrence. Of course, 7 understand—but . . . CAROLINE. ..."
2. Waves of the Sea and Other Water Waves by Vaughan Cornish (1910)
"... on looking closely at a standing wave (in which the depth of water was only
about 2 inches) I noticed that the water here flowed gushily—ie, ..."
3. An Experimental Psychology of Music by Karl Feininger (1909)
"But these correctives stipulate self-denying work—precisely the kind which seems
constitutionally repugnant to the gushily predisposed nature of most ..."
4. Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan (1908)
"... obscure the Goody's penetrative powers when invoked for the discomfiture of
her kind. "But does not my dear boy know," she continues gushily, "that I am ..."
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