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Recent Examples of ornately
In 1819, a special acoustic chair was designed for the king of Portugal, featuring arms ornately carved to look like open lion mouths, which helped transmit sound to the king’s ear via speaking tubes.
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IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026
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
In front of the massive and ornately tiled Kalon, or great mosque—built in the 16th century on the site where Genghis Khan destroyed the previous one and slaughtered some 300,000 men three centuries earlier—boys practice on handheld drums.
—Daphne Beal, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2017
IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026
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
In front of the massive and ornately tiled Kalon, or great mosque—built in the 16th century on the site where Genghis Khan destroyed the previous one and slaughtered some 300,000 men three centuries earlier—boys practice on handheld drums.
—Daphne Beal, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ornately
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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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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The Distinguished Artisan Award is presented to an artist whose consistent collaboration with the MUAHS Guild has richly enhanced and created memorable characters throughout their career.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2026
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The execs had seen firsthand what was wrong, and recognized that the IRS’s first CEO is richly equipped to deliver the fix.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
31 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Spielberg worked within the system, Coppola spent lavishly and even ostentatiously to build his own studio and Lucas found his independence through a quieter, more conservative and technology-driven route.—
Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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And Bina Daigeler’s costumes are a hoot, ostentatiously fashionable and expensive and sexy.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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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Sold to Menemsha, genuinely tense and gorgeously shot, highlighting the heavenly mountains and a historical hell.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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The camera lingers on dripping egg yolks and squishy, bubbling dough; the protagonist, Cathy Earnshaw (played by Margot Robbie), must wade through pig’s blood on her way to the moors near her home, leaving a trim of viscera on her gorgeously anachronistic dress.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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And this strikingly immediate version foregrounds intimacy and texture.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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Its inbound and outbound migration patterns were strikingly similar.—
Chaya Tong,
Austin American Statesman,
16 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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And the patchwork style of Brij Sadanah’s direction enhances the colorfully over-the-top story, which recasts Wuthering Heights as a sensationalistic revenge drama.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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For a good chunk of this century, however, he has become known mostly for his lush and colorfully vivid covers for Marvel.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Ornately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ornately. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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