Etymology
Origin of rosily
Example Sentences
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Other generations seeking to understand us need only turn to John Hughes, who captured our glum teens, or any filmmaker who rosily chronicled our wasted 20s.
From Salon
Mr. Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate, has rosily called legislative politics “the art of the possible.”
From New York Times
Shreve stood in the door, putting his collar on, his glasses glinting rosily, as though he had washed them with his face.
From Literature
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Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it.
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Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.
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