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colorfully

  • a word derived from colorful.
    colorful
    adjective
    abounding in color.

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In a speech in February, Fed governor Christopher Waller put it more colorfully: “You don’t want banks every night … digging around the couch cushions looking for money. That is massively inefficient, stupid.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026

They sort their waste into colorfully labeled canvas bags the company provides, and wait for a Ridwell pickup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

After a 16-hour bus ride, Prapakaran removed his shoes, entered through a side door of the colorfully painted building and proceeded to the marble-floored inner sanctum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2025

For the average person, any explanation about philosophers and physicists warring over the nature of consciousness — no matter how colorfully described — would probably sound like an embarrassingly low-stakes Ivory Tower slap fight.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2024

The last sound she heard was Fenoglio's pen scribbling over the paper, writing word after word as fast as a weaver's shuttle turning black threads into colorfully patterned cloth....

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke