Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a confiding manner; trustfully.

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  • adverb In a confiding manner; in a matter that confides.

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  • adverb with trust; in a trusting manner

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Examples

  • I won't stay out too late, went on Suraiya, confidingly.

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  • The last time we made love, as I draped my arm around her, settled my fingers on her hip, she spoke confidingly of her children, especially the two that weren't speaking to her.

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  • Drawing a breath, she turned confidingly to Lady Hester.

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  • "You know what, I don't want a straw," she says, before adding confidingly, "Let's pick another battle."

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  • Isabelle and Alec think I talk too much, he said, confidingly.

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  • His height impresses; his belly, which should in justice belong to a more sedentary man, is merely another princely aspect of his being, and on it, confidingly, he often rests a large, white, beringed hand.

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  • "You know, " she said confidingly, expertly unlocking the case, 'lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.

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  • I tried out for the part of Emmeline originally, she says confidingly.

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  • I tried out for the part of Emmeline originally, she says confidingly.

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  • “Now, my dear Miss Summerson, and my dear Mr. Richard,” said Mr. Skimpole gaily, innocently, and confidingly as he looked at his drawing with his head on one side,

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