as in ostentatiously
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Adverb
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Tanner plunges into these ostentatiously autobiographical roles, heedlessly, hectically and without a psychiatric net.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026 -
The elegant houses of Georgetown were ostentatiously weather-beaten.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
11 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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On our first morning, Sara and I woke to one of the roughly 300 days of sun that Taos receives each year—gaudily beautiful weather for the end of February.—
Michael Paterniti,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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But where the exhibitions on Cribs were charmingly, sometimes garishly, idiosyncratic, today’s represent a subtler and often more generic version of taste.—
Kim Hew-Low,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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In his social orbit are a flamboyantly gay colleague played by Mason Gooding and a roommate questioning her own sexuality, played by Chase Sui Wonders.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2026
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The novel keeps the illusion running with great skill, but it’s also flamboyantly patterned, in ways both large and small.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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With their imposing bulk, elegant curves, colorfully painted sterns, and ornate decorations, the vessels were among the most distinctive and beautiful ships on the seas.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Brooks speaks colorfully and candidly, starting with his impoverished Brooklyn childhood, raised with three brothers by his mother after his father died of tuberculosis.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Big news for the golf fans who like their birdies loud, their crowds rowdy and their tournaments with a side of pure chaos.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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But [the fans] were singing really loud.—
Jason Lipshutz,
Billboard,
12 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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In Churchill, the trash sites have all been bear-proofed (enclosed so the animals can’t graze among the garbage), but not so in Arviat, where Inuit enforcers show up in their buggies to honk loudly and chase the bears away from open-air landfills.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
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Lafayette celebrates every strand of its identity loudly and often.—
Phil Thomas,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Akira Tozawa took a huge clothesline from Julius Creed and sold it brilliantly by doing a backflip.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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In an unassuming building at the San Francisco Zoo, 115 brilliantly colored baby snakes are being fattened up on a diet of worms.—
Pepper St. Clair,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Flashily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flashily. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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