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Trustingly

Trusting \Trust"ing\, a. Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.

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trustingly

adv. In a trusting manner.

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trustingly

adv. with trust; in a trusting manner; "she looked at her father trustingly" [syn: trustfully, confidingly] [ant: distrustfully]

Usage examples of "trustingly".

But it was Ivar he gazed at trustingly, Ivar he clung to, Ivar he followed through thick and thin.

She had pleaded with me that night, swayed against me trustingly, appealed to me as to a chivalrous gentleman and, having competently pulled the wool over my eyes, had laughed at me in her sleeve.

We glided across the skin of each other, opened into the moistness of our mouths, and then the buoyance was a trap, we bobbed and jostled, cracking our elbows on the jade bottom of the bath, laughing, slipping and holding, gulping water, spitting, the natural lubricants of our bodies stolen by the foaming water so we skidded and scraped at each other but were together, then, together moving, our feet tangled in my shirt and one leg of my breeches working itself between our bellies, giggling and joyous, thrusting, Vanden long gone about his search for power cells, my hands holding Glade's hard buttocks, and her legs and arms trustingly about me while I drove us together, together, coming with cries, not with passion, no, not with obsession but with consolation and caring and, I don't know, perhaps with love.

After he had been taught to milk them, after he had been assigned a school, it 124 had annoyed the hell out of him to see the rotting car casses of whales that had trustingly let humans tap them to death.

After he had been taught to milk them, after he had been assigned a school, it had annoyed the hell out of him to see the rotting car casses of whales that had trustingly let humans tap them to death.

They went back together, and he crawled next to her trustingly, the interloper forgotten, at least temporarily.

The fillies had grown, ceased to nurse, and gave their names trustingly.

The guards, who meanwhile knew me well, often asked me to get them something from the market and for this pressed their kopecks trustingly into my hand.

She nestled against him as trustingly as a child, but he could never forget that she was a woman, as fierce and elemental as wind or fire.