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Meanings of blushful in English

Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset.

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        Of blush color.

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              Examples for "rosy"
              Examples for "rosy"
              1
              However, the average share price performance post dual listing was less rosy.
              Reuters
              2
              However, all is not quite as rosy as the headline numbers suggest.
              The Guardian
              3
              At first family is going to have some responsibility everything is rosy.
              Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b...
              4
              Still, the outlook for the U.S. restaurant industry remains far from rosy.
              Reuters
              5
              Even so, the outlook for the restaurant industry remains far from rosy.
              Reuters
              Usage of blushful in English
              1
              What are you whisperin' about, you blushful chap there by the winder?
              At a Winter's Fire
              2
              But Hoddan got them back to the ship, in confusion tending toward the blushful.
              The Pirates of Ersatz
              3
              Sally leaned back all pinksome and blushful, and while she laughed at him she
              Laddie: A True Blue Story
              4
              I call it "the blushful Hippocrene," that the poet describes as
              A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
              5
              He was very ceremonious, shy, ungainly and blushful.
              The Lion's Share
              6
              Oh, for a beaker full of the warm south, full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene!
              Mike
              7
              The exquisite rose had not yet opened its leaves so as to show its heart; but its fragrance and blushful pride were there in perfection.
              Woman in the Nineteenth Century / and Kindred Papers Relating to...
              8
              "It is the true, the blushful Hippocrene."
              Not that it Matters
              Frequent collocations
              Blushful through the time