pinkly


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pinkly

(ˈpɪŋklɪ)
adv
literary with a pink or blushing complexion or colour
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Then, almost before anybody realized it, spring had come; out in Avonlea the Mayflowers were peeping pinkly out on the sere barrens where snow-wreaths lingered; and the "mist of green" was on the woods and in the valleys.
Pinkly, sweetly innocent as a blushing rosebud, terno by Malu Veloso
When a full moon is rising pinkly over the Atlantic, it's possible to forget why one would ever subject herself to the annual contest of relevance.
'We have a small problem.' 'What problem?' 'The clippers appear to be working again.' He took the clippers and inspected them, the swathe of follicular devastation catching spigots of light from the fluorescent strip above.' Ah, so pinkly, did the firmament gleam', and so on.
Gorgeous stretches of sand such as Horseshoe Bay really do shimmer pinkly under the sun.
The pink was pinkly perked up with rose-hips, raspberries and ripe, ripe strawberries.
and veal oozing pinkly thinking about becoming a vegetarian.