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Recent Examples of ornately
The movie is an empty shell ornately decorated with eyecatching camera angles, an acidulously sun-bright palette, and whimsical dialogue.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ornately
Adverb
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Call upon your trusty slow cooker to make this richly comforting potato soup.—
Elizabeth Mervosh,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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There’s no way to approximate this full-body experience or reproduce the effect of millions of richly acoustic notes shooting in all directions.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The characters are bright, marionette-like caricatures whom the author constructs and moves ostentatiously in full view of the reader, revealing his artistic devices with a sense of absurd, mischievous humor.—
Nelly Klos
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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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
Adverb
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With the air choked by chemicals and ash, the sunsets were flamboyantly intense.—
Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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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
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After all, the moody duet features the gorgeously contrasting tones of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon with Swift's more delicate vocals as the two portray exes who are parsing what went wrong in their relationship.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Oct. 2025
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From denim mini dresses to gorgeously cut trench coats and boxier streetwear-style jackets, everything is top tier, and, IMO, totally worth the money.—
Shawna Hudson,
StyleCaster,
3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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More strikingly, scientists recently reported signs of vivianite (an iron phosphate) and greigite (an iron sulfide).—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The new system generates longer, more coherent clips that look strikingly real.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Shot in a colorfully naturalistic style by Irina Lubtchansky (My Golden Days), the film occasionally switches to what looks like Super 8mm, capturing the action more intimately and playfully.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Aug. 2025
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One expert, reflecting on personal experience, put it more colorfully.—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Multiple previously very successful special teams coordinators have come to SF and failed spectacularly.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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One of two book covers about records this month—except that this one is really about the title, which becomes the illustration spectacularly.—
Emily Temple
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Lost in our mind frequency, which hummed loud now like a drone.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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The big climactic set piece is somehow both maddeningly ambiguous and head-smackingly obvious, a maximalist attempt at making a statement that talks loud and says nothing.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Ornately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ornately. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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