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
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
Outdoor rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants, and thrive flourishingly in persecution.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Everything went flourishingly; to be sure, there were more ladies than gentlemen, which required much watching and managing on Bea's part, that no lady should suffer a dearth of masculine attention.
From Six Girls A Home Story by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
