Flutteringly

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Flut´ter`ing`ly

adv.

In a fluttering manner.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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All bad puns aside, there's a clever ultra-flexy wax in this mascara that envelops lashes and makes them flutteringly fabulous.

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Balance and sonority over a huge dynamic range were also features of the few but vital contributions of the CBSO Chorus, whether sturdy as Knights of the Grail or flutteringly seductive as Flowermaidens.

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Narrated in the first-person, the novels describe Ana's responses to Christian in terms of an experience of physical disarray, which constitutes a list of romance fiction cliches (Ana blushes and flushes, she shivers, she quivers, her heart rate accelerates, she flutteringly blinks, her 'eyelids matching [her] heart rate', her legs turn to 'Jell-O', she repeatedly faints and is often close to unconsciousness (pp8, 27)).