Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a bluish manner.

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  • adverb In a bluish way.

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Examples

  • Edges softened by atmosphere, it was bestrewn with glaciers, long streaks and broad plains and frozen seas bluishly aglimmer from pole to pole.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

  • And the God of Jurgen's grandmother, too, was silent for a while, and the rainbow under which He sat put off its seven colors and burned with an unendurable white, tinged bluishly, while the God considered ancient things.

    Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

  • And there remained only one visitor in the vast empty sala, bluishly hazy with tobacco smoke, a heavy-eyed, round - cheeked man, with a drooping moustache, a hide merchant from Esmeralda, who had come overland to

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • Her face was bluishly-purple, and the tip of the tongue was thrust out between clenched and bared teeth.

    Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

  • And there remained only one visitor in the vast empty sala, bluishly hazy with tobacco smoke, a heavy-eyed, round-cheeked man, with a drooping moustache, a hide merchant from Esmeralda, who had come overland to Sulaco, riding with a few peons across the coast range.

    Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Mr. Auburn Risque had a spotted eye and a bluishly cold face; his fingers were the only movable part of him, for he performed respiration and articulation with the same organ -- his nose; and the sole words vouchsafed by this at present were:

    Bohemian Days Three American Tales George Alfred Townsend 1877

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