flushedly
flushedly adverb: in a flushed manner; with a flush.
Adverb
flushedly (comparative more flushedly, superlative most flushedly)
- In a flushed manner; with a flush.
- There is a small group of seniors who broadcast their plans for ensuing week-ends with voices intended to reflect great credit to their financial and social prowess. There was the special r. r. car to the Penn State game; the special train, boat, and bus to the Harvard game. Every Saturday night...1933 November, “Walter Windshield - Again”, in C. Brooks Peters, editor, The Lehigh Burr, volume LI, number 2, Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University, →OCLC, page 14, column 1
- For a fraught, tense moment their gazes locked. The girl, her red-gold hair a flaming riot, her face set and hard and flushedly beautiful, her little white teeth just showing behind scarlet lips that were moist, drawn back a trifle.1942 March, John Starr [house pseudonym used by Roger Dee Aycock, Nelson Slade Bond, Hugh Barnett Cave, Dan Cushman, and Lewis Patrick Greene], “Gunsmoke Gal of Nighthawk Range”, in Malcolm Reiss...
- Synonyms:
- blushedly, blushingly, flushingly
Examples of flushedly in a sentence
- Every Saturday night, however, we see them flushedly drinking beer at one of the local dispensaries.1933 November, “Walter Windshield - Again”, in C. Brooks Peters, editor, The Lehigh Burr, volume LI, number 2, Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh...
- Rosalie was now standing directly over Rose B. in a glaring light that gave a lachrymal quality to the eyelash shadows spilling over flushedly exquisite cheekbones.1987 October, Michael Brodsky, Xman, New York, N.Y.: Four Walls Eight Windows, published March 1988 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 130:
Synonyms of flushedly
Forms of flushedly
| comparative | more flushedly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most flushedly |
Origin of flushedly
From flushed + -ly.
Questions about flushedly
- What does flushedly mean?
- Flushedly means in a flushed manner; with a flush.
- How do you use flushedly in a sentence?
- Every Saturday night, however, we see them flushedly drinking beer at one of the local dispensaries.
- What part of speech is flushedly?
- Flushedly is an adverb.
Words near flushedly in the dictionary
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