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blushedly en · ADV

Etymology

From blushed + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a blushed manner; with a blush.
   • No, Dave Martin, my editor, misread something I wrote and said that the channel spacing was 40 kHz.. What I said was that there are 40 channels per Megahertz, which works out to a channel spacing of 25 kHz.. (1E6 ÷ 40 = 25E3) Dave, a pretty fair electroniker in his own right (amateur extra and all) has blushedly apologized to me and to everybody who wrote in. My blushings to you on his behalf. 2002 December 11, Jim Weir, “Channel spacing”, in rec.aviation.owning (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
   • So careless, light and tender now. Imagine: how quiet the snowy peaks of the Urals may be. If a pallid countenance lost in a dusk brings sorrow upon us, we know that in its place a stream blushedly flows! A love, a morning in unfamiliar lands around our souls tightly bends, with endless peace of blue seas, in which crimson coral beads glow like cherries in the homeland. 2006, Miloš Crnjanski (translated), “Sumatra”, in Serbian Literary Magazine, number 1, Belgrade: Serbian Writers Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, “New Classics in New Translations” section, page 9:
   • If i've caused any inconvenience to other TGers, I apologize and will be more attentive in the future. But I was so frustrated with my performance that I simply had to ask while the fire was still hot, so to speak. Blushedly, and with much chagrin, HenrySun 1996 December 23, don...@mont.mindspring.com, “2 TG hands from last night”, in rec.games.bridge.okbridge (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
   • >Uh, ahem. $5 for 10 hours translates to $0.50 per hour, doesn't it? Aram. > ... "Dobac Math" ... :-D (blushedly ducks and sneaks out of the room) 2002 August 20, Coin Saver, “Buying power equivalent of 1935 U.S. Dollar”, in rec.collecting.paper-money (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:

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blushingly · flushedly · flushingly