Synonyms for blushing
blush·ing

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1. blushful, blushing(a), red-facedadjective

   having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset

   "the blushing boy was brought before the Principal"; "her blushful beau"; "was red-faced with anger"

   Antonyms:
   composed

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1. blushingnoun

   Synonyms:
   blush, erubescence

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1. List of paraphrases for "blushing":

   blush

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1. Jerome K. Jerome:

   Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

2. George Bernard Shaw:

   Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

3. Laertius Diogenes:

   Blushing is the color of virtue.

4. Jonathan Swift:

   As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.