The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confiding \Con*fid"ing\, a. That confides; trustful; unsuspicious. -- Con*fid"ing*ly, adv. -- Con*fid"ing*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a confiding manner; in a matter that confides.
WordNet
adv. with trust; in a trusting manner; "she looked at her father trustingly" [syn: trustfully, trustingly] [ant: distrustfully]
Usage examples of "confidingly".
He sat down beside the bed to ponder the enterprise laid so confidingly in his hands.
Luke and the doctor bent over the chessboard, Arthur leaned confidingly close to Theodora, and Mrs.
Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother.
Then, to complicate the ruin, she cut it down one third, and confidingly sent the poor little romance, like a picked robin, out into the big, busy world to try its fate.
It was a very humble little room, but Polly had done her best to make it pleasant, and it already had a home-like look, with the cheery fire, and the household pets chirping and purring confidingly on the rug.
Her hand stole up to his cheek, and she leaned her own confidingly against the rough coat, as she said, in her frank simple way, "Tom, dear, don't say that, as if I was the best girl in the world.
Skimpole gaily, innocently, and confidingly as he looked at his drawing with his head on one side, "here you see me utterly incapable of helping myself, and entirely in your hands!
The evil Grotsky leaned forward in his chair and spoke confidingly to Bill.
Deoris looked down into the pixyish face that now laid itself confidingly on her shoulder.