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And Dave Eggers recently published a parable about a flamingly incompetent leader called “The Captain and the Glory.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2020

Some of these objections were reasonable, but it’s hard to resist the idea that the core of Thatcher’s hostility to Europe was flamingly unreasonable, almost exceeding articulate discourse.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019

These ranged from the fierce one-upmanship of Mr. Levine’s “Renegade,” with its flamingly virtuosic solos delivered over hard-jolting, irregular chords, to the silky blend of Mr. Moore’s “Mannequin.”

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2016

I will have been flamingly, publicly wrong for 15 years.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2010

The color came up flamingly into his face again.

From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield