Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With many blushes.
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- adverb In a
blushful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, on Archie giving a promise to keep the front of the picture away from the public gaze, he consented to take the job on; and, some ten minutes later, having made his way blushfully through the hotel lobby and endured the frank curiosity of the boy who worked the elevator, Archie entered his suite, the picture under his arm.
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If he could have looked into the future -- five years almost to a day from that evening -- and seen himself walking blushfully down the aisle of St. Thomas 'with Roland Trevis' sister Angela on his arm, his gloom might have been lightened.
Jill the Reckless 1928
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Sitting by a tapestry-frame, for he could not imagine her peeling potatoes, down in the Convent bombproof, dreaming of him, weeping over his last letter, or blushfully aware of his vicinity, panting at the bottom of the ladder, listening for the beloved accents of the man who ...
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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