as in bright
in a manner marked by the shining or reflecting of much light
he tenderly caressed her lustrously soft hair
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Squeezits No '90s lunch box felt complete without a brightly colored bottle of Squeezits.
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Over 150 brightly colored, lovingly detailed cars cruised down Capitol Mall on Sunday for the fourth annual Lowrider Holiday Celebration.
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Others are luminously, freakishly beautiful, in ways that seem designed to appeal to beings from other solar systems.
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Bogdanovich’s breakthrough came in 1971 with The Last Picture Show, an ensemble drama about growing up in a small Texas town, sensitively told and luminously shot.
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“Lustrously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustrously. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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