purblindly

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

He was looking purblindly down the shabby street, its hard crisp snow littered with tin cans, paper, bits of slop and offal.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

John Peter looked purblindly about him, rubbing his spectacles with a thread-bare coat-tail.

From Hocken and Hunken by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I declare," said Penelope, where she sat purblindly sewing on a bit of dress for Irene, "the Colonel's clothes are as much trouble as anybody's.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean