fancily

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fancily
Adverb
  • Plates created specially for the evening had been broken and glued back together.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The robot is trained specially for disaster-response applications, requiring it to pass multiple tests to prove its usefulness.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The movie is an empty shell ornately decorated with eyecatching camera angles, an acidulously sun-bright palette, and whimsical dialogue.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • These are all weapons specifically designed to annihilate outsiders trying to get inside the cities, weapons meant to cause the most pain for the amusement of the insiders (think a napalm bomb ornately decorated in the shape of a cone, which liquifies outsiders in seconds).
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Beginners remain an exceptionally vulnerable population of snowboarders, which is why Manuylov now aims to reach them in a different way.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Speaking ahead of the match, Khumalo expressed his confidence that the current squad is exceptionally well-positioned to compete not only across Africa but on the global stage, marking what could be a defining moment in South African football’s modern journey.
    Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Each character’s hangups and drive are finely drawn throughout.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Adverbs that pertain to cutting are also super important, like thinly, coarsely, or finely.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Any small baking project intended to provide treats for one or two is excellently done in the air fryer—the convection will ensure even baking and superb textures for muffins, cakes, and so much more.
    Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For his part, Law, who will premiere his own film this week, provided an excellently convincing argument in the fiery northern Mediterranean man-fashion white-dinner-jacket debate that a double-breasted’s peaked lapels should each properly be the dimension of an aircraft carrier deck.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • O’Brien’s dual roles as both flamboyantly gay charm bomb Rocky — who is flattened in a car accident early in the film — and the grieving and straight Roman comprise a career-topping performance.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The flamboyantly lascivious Frank-N-Furter is about to unveil his new Creature, the titular Rocky Horror (Peter Hinwood).
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 16 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • The Sao Paolo Grand Prix, finishing third alongside Ocon's second was a standout performance for the driver, who managed to navigate the wet race superbly.
    Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
  • This is a unique portrait of families and their foibles, both amusing and annoying, superbly acted by an exceptional cast fully inhabiting their characters.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Given that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ostentatiously dropped nearly all their public commitments when moved to California in 2021, this seems to represent a turnaround.
    Alexander Larman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The ingredients of an Erewhon smoothie (4) swirl together without any mixing, colors clashing ostentatiously.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Fancily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fancily. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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