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  • adverb While gleaming, or so as to gleam

Etymologies

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gleaming +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And compared with her – indeed, compared with anyone – today's rock stars are gleamingly drug-free.

    How the British fell out of love with drugs 2011

  • First came Lord Triesman's claims that Fifa – an organisation that inhabits a cavernous bulletproof aircraft hanger and whose gleamingly basted president emanates at all times a personal force field of strangulation-strength phoniness – may actually be a little corrupt.

    It's time to admit football is pure evil | Barney Ronay 2011

  • Elisabeth Moss, gleamingly voracious in Speed-the-Plow a couple of years ago on Broadway, plays the other accused with more decision.

    The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review 2011

  • Each day ticking away into a gleamingly beautiful night, where if she lay still enough, there was Dr. Alfred Curie, different now: not with his Edwardian mustache, but clean shaven as she had not wanted him to be before.

    The Color of Silence is Radium Green 2010

  • Which is to say, to the extent that I thought about it, I simply assumed that her future was brilliantly, gleamingly bright.

    A Wonderful Life | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Which is to say, to the extent that I thought about it, I simply assumed that her future was brilliantly, gleamingly bright.

    A Wonderful Life 2008

  • Almost 45 years after I first saw that gleamingly phallic, slim rocket, someone esteems a Hugo above nearly all else.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

  • This high-stepping tale of immigrant life in the Upper Manhattan barrio throbs with self-confidence, and its theatrical craftsmanship is gleamingly immaculate.

    The Slickest Show in New York 2008

  • Publicity pictures of auto factories are always gleamingly clean.

    Create Uncle Sam Motors 2008

  • Which is to say, to the extent that I thought about it, I simply assumed that her future was brilliantly, gleamingly bright.

    Archive 2008-01-06 2008

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