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contagiously

  • a word derived from contagious.
    contagious
    adjective
    capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object.

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Variety magazine called it "contagiously joyful" while the Financial Times said it "lacked sparkle".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025

Now there is research which reveals chimps even pee contagiously.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025

To live so fully, so galactically, so contagiously, with so much daring, candor, zest and, yes, energy that no one is ever going to believe it when you die.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

I still yawn contagiously during social interactions, but seeing the stimuli that I use in the lab no longer produces the effect.

From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2022

At sight of the long liberty of the corridor where the light lay mysteriously touching tiles and tapestries to festal colours, Amory's spirits rose contagiously, and his eyes shone behind his pince-nez.

From Romance Island by Zona Gale