Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Brightly; splendidly; conspicuously.

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  • adverb In a shining manner; brilliantly.

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Examples

  • She asked the shiningly young and well-coiffed woman in pink at the reception desk for Severalls asylum, using the name by which she believed it would be known locally, if at all.

    Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

  • Rose—Mrs. Cassels, now—keeps it shiningly clean and has taken several orders for gowns.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • Rose—Mrs. Cassels, now—keeps it shiningly clean and has taken several orders for gowns.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • In the middle of the night, he awakes to see a shiningly spectral Anna Draper smiling at him, carrying a small case for her journey ahead.

    William Bradley: Mad Men : 'The Suitcase' Is Tougher Than Sonny Liston 2010

  • In carefully composed, shiningly idealistic remarks, they announced their intention to build an international network linking young people working in food and farming.

    Slow Food, High Gear 2008

  • In carefully composed, shiningly idealistic remarks, they announced their intention to build an international network linking young people working in food and farming.

    Slow Food, High Gear 2008

  • A few days later, when the new bench was done, sturdy and shiningly green, we burned the old bench.

    Archive 2008-04-01 e 2008

  • The history of the Church overall is not uniformly and shiningly an example of humanity transfigured.

    Archbishop's Holy Week Lecture: Faith & History 2008

  • All the windows of the hotel hospital that had been shiningly reflecting blue sky and airships the moment before became vast black stars.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • PeaceBang here, darlings, who knows Sister Sarah and can attest to the fact that she is one of those extra cute, shiningly beautiful young thangs who can get by with a bare face and a slick of lipgloss.

    Archive 2006-04-16 PeaceBang 2006

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