beamish

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Recent Examples of beamish Her Dorian is beamish until besmirched. Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 That’s not the fault of the beamish, resourceful Ross, who, as a recent Evan Hansen, has experience portraying liars. Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beamish
Adjective
  • Even moderately keen cornering produces body roll and would bring doubtless admonition from the rear seats.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
  • And the all-boffo, all-the-time production is exhausting (which is doubtless why the rare quiet moments stand out).
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Nov. 2022
Adjective
  • Calls of three and four clubs agree diamonds, for sure.
    Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2025
  • But one thing is for sure — Albin’s team is ready to face an opponent who is not wearing green and white.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • So here’s what the data is saying: Corporations are confident—just look at buybacks.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Willy Adames is confident the Giants could’ve turned two.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Occasionally, Cleary — who delivers between 50 and 100 quilts a month — said the group will hear positive stories from their donations.
    Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This long-standing promotion, dating back to the 1940s, generates significant positive publicity for George Webb.
    Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Much of the housing stock is too pricey, the clientele too assured of its own tastes (and perhaps reluctant to invite in the hordes).
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 22 July 2025
  • That feels like the grandest lesson of Simpson’s modest but assured film.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Weapons took decisive care of its competition for a second week in a row at the box office.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Against the Packers, Fields was decisive after taking what the defense gave him, completing 3-of-4 passes and rushing for a touchdown.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Higher risk bonds would do well, and the Treasury yield curve would likely keep steepening in a modestly bullish fashion (Translation: All or most yields fall, but long-term ones fall much less than short-term ones).
    MoneyShow, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Along with bullish signals on the Wall Street side (a token of approval that President Trump has demonstrated is important to him), Rieder is also confident of the need to cut the base rate from its current level of 4.25% to 4.5%.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But its guiding principle this time is not idealism but realism, with an unhesitating embrace of national interests and increased recourse to power politics.
    Sarang Shidore, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Proulx is an unhesitating observer of people and places, neither idealizing nor villainizing, but her acuity depends on a certain distance.
    Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023

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“Beamish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beamish. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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