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“Well, yes,” she replies, blushingly modest, to which Mr. Asner barks his memorable punchline:

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2021

Neither actor delivers the most mellifluous iambic pentameter you’ve ever heard, and nor should they: the lines roll eagerly, earnestly, blushingly off their tongues, like eighth-graders reading and writing poetry for the first time.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2016

She’s as blushingly in love now as Demelza once was.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2015

There is more of a social life, too: a young employee, recently arrived from remote Xianyang, talks blushingly about her evenings with handsome co-workers at the Cyberfox, the campus internet café.

From Economist • Dec. 13, 2012

Finding it occupied, they banteringly apologized for intrusion, while Miss Merton and her escort blushingly declared themselves on the point of departure, and went back to the dance.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville