racily

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Adverb
  • Vintage styles move briskly on resale sites while new designs are equally as popular.
    Diana Tsui, Footwear News, 13 May 2026
  • The interview ends, and Mbappé is briskly presented with a pile of Real Madrid shirts to be signed.
    Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
Adverb
  • Palmer passed crisply, slowed things down when circumstances demanded it.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • When Jobs returned to Apple after the first demo, he was crisply informed by Raskin that he’d been had — PARC had withheld from him most of its most innovative work.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • And the queen’s violent enforcement of her dominance is energetically costly and can lead to injuries, according to the researchers.
    Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The unanticipated consequences of transformational change are energetically explored in Jude’s films.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Bündchen could be seen playfully tossing her baby boy in the air in the first photo, while other pictures show the model spending quality time with all three of her kids.
    Staff Author, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
  • Natural light pours into the bathrooms, and ground-floor accommodations have alfresco showers (playfully dubbed secret gardens).
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2026
Adverb
  • Not exactly a breezily escapist tale of party-girl antics, this is more of a dystopian novel about the inevitable tech-apocalypse, told through the story of a family on vacation from Brooklyn.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang breezily observed on a podcast last month that donating to Crockett is a waste of money.
    Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2026
Adverb
  • The housekeepers greet me with genuine care, the bartenders create cocktails with panache and smiles, and the doormen and women jauntily pose for pictures in their thick Batman-style winter cloaks.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Fresh flowers burst explosively out of each cake, swinging jauntily over stacks of vanilla sponges and creamy frostings.
    The Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
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“Racily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racily. Accessed 17 May. 2026.

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