flourishing
adjective
growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous.
flourishingly
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a word derived from
flourishing.
Example Sentences
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Its arguments for tolerance and fair play, as spoken flourishingly by Actor Watson, are overwrought and sometimes speciously reasoned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nay, not content with giving him the goods, many of the poor demented creatures actually paraded their folly at their doors in new deal packing-cases, flourishingly directed 'to sir harry scattercash, bart., nonsuch house, &c.
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees
Nevertheless, she reached down for the whistle, wiped the mouthpiece dry, and sent the baby into ecstasies by executing "Yankee Doodle" flourishingly upon it.
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
We were its leaders and exponents, we were the thing it most flourishingly produced.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Mr. Cannon read it over, and then Arthur Dayson borrowed the old clerk's vile pen and with the ceremonious delays due to his sense of his own importance, flourishingly added the signature.
From Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
