blush
verb (used without object)
to redden, as from self-consciousness, embarrassment, or shame.
blushless
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a word derived from
blush.
Example Sentences
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—Where's this perfidious Fair? this blushless Maid, That has by my Example broke her Vows?
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
At Anspach first my feud with you began— Anspach, my Eden, violated and shamed By blushless tramplings of your legions there!
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
Look with what a blushless face of triumph she eyes her poor tottering neighbour opposite, who never appears destined "to suffer a recovery."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 by Various
Thus had her first sense of horror been blunted, and blushless become her keen, womanly shame.
From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee
Goltho did like a blushless statue stare, Boldly her practis'd boldness did outlook; And even for fear she would mistrust her snare, Was ready to cry out, that he was took.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Theophilus Cibber
