blush
verb (used without object)
to redden, as from self-consciousness, embarrassment, or shame.
blushful
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a word derived from
blush.
Example Sentences
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Expression varied from abstractions in wood and rubber to the blushful romanticism of Victorian candy-box painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Mrs. Russell's lecture was cancelled and the Student Forum breathed more freely, having escaped the blushful consequences of its own temerity by a road which did not contravene Wisconsin's broad avenue of free speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Webb's oenology students, wine is not the "blushful Hippocrene" extolled by Keats but a complicated blend of ethyl alcohol, polyphenols and a hundred other compounds that must be subjected to decidedly unromantic analysis.
From Time Magazine Archive
You and I together shall mingle joyous memories of "A draught of the Warm South, The true, the blushful Hippocrene."
From The Postmaster's Daughter by Louis Tracy
Her features were modified by the most transient sentiments, and were the seat of a softness at all times blushful and bewitching.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
