Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Flutteringly; showily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a flaring manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a flaring manner.

Etymologies

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flaring +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I found the passages and staircases of the Court-House flaringly lighted with gas, and the Court itself similarly illuminated.

    The Trial For Murder by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

  • I found the passages and staircases of the Court-House flaringly lighted with gas, and the Court itself similarly illuminated.

    The Trial for Murder, by Charles Dickens 2004

  • A flaringly illustrated New York paper was spread out upon his sofa.

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • It was, as I have noted, Sunday; but every shop where things pleasing or even useful to women were sold was wide open, and somewhat flaringly invited the custom of our fellow-passengers of that sex; but there was not a shop where such things as men's collars were for sale, or anything pleasing or useful to man, but was closed and locked fast.

    Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878

  • And from a pale blonde she had become flaringly carrotty; so that a Titianesque creature seemed to have sprung from the little urchin-like girl of former days.

    His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871

  • As far as I'm concerned, Obama is flaringly negligent, the people of the Gulf coast need to remember this, and the MSM isn't talking much about it.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • "As far as I'm concerned, Obama is flaringly negligent, the people of the Gulf coast need to remember this, and the MSM isn't talking much about it."

    Latest Articles 2010

  • a good many houses the lights are out already -- it is nearly eleven o'clock and this part of St. Louis goes to bed early -- only the drugstores and the moving-picture theatres are still flaringly awake.

    Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

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