as in expensively
in a luxurious manner
a richly decorated penthouse that showed off the owner's art collection to its best advantage
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Recent Examples of richly
Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 June 2025
Throughout seasons one and two, the mansion’s richly detailed rooms doubled as the New York City residence of old-money socialites Charles and Aurora Fane, relatives of the van Rhijns.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 June 2025
Harnessing the abundance of data that came from this effort, on Thursday (June 5), the team released the largest contiguous image ever captured by the JWST, along with a free, interactive catalog detailing the properties of each galaxy — a cosmic record that's as vast as it is richly detailed.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 5 June 2025
In the downstairs Photo Elysée space, American photographer Tyler Mitchell’s show Wish This Was Real depicts African American subjects of all ages in all manner of settings, in images that are at times fashionable, at times quotidian, and often enigmatic—but always richly beautiful in composition.
—John Oseid, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 June 2025
Throughout seasons one and two, the mansion’s richly detailed rooms doubled as the New York City residence of old-money socialites Charles and Aurora Fane, relatives of the van Rhijns.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 June 2025
Harnessing the abundance of data that came from this effort, on Thursday (June 5), the team released the largest contiguous image ever captured by the JWST, along with a free, interactive catalog detailing the properties of each galaxy — a cosmic record that's as vast as it is richly detailed.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 5 June 2025
In the downstairs Photo Elysée space, American photographer Tyler Mitchell’s show Wish This Was Real depicts African American subjects of all ages in all manner of settings, in images that are at times fashionable, at times quotidian, and often enigmatic—but always richly beautiful in composition.
—John Oseid, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for richly
Adverb
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That’s probably because the shoes come up large and were slightly too wide in our regular size.—
Jessica Macdonald,
Travel + Leisure,
9 June 2025
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That these are happening at a moment of precariousness for the industry writ large makes the stakes that much higher.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
Adverb
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On a rocky ridge high above a rustic valley, east of the resort town of Kaş, are the ruins of Kyaenai.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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Using a soft bristled brush, work high to low again.—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
5 July 2025
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“Richly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/richly. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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