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funkily

  • a word derived from funky.
    funky
    adjective
    overcome with great fear; terrified.

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But while the score starts and ends funkily, its quiet-storm middle is slow and sticky, and the dance, sensitively following the music, sags.

From New York Times Jul. 23, 2023

The funkily animated interludes derive from the sisters’ fantastical fictions, many of which they attempted to have published.

From Washington Post Sep. 13, 2022

US Girls are as funkily, glamorously fraught as Roxy Music, slinking past any box you try to make for them.

From The Guardian Mar. 11, 2020

It ran down the surface in thick rivulets as funkily literal as they are associational.

From New York Times Sep. 27, 2018

You need to be a mutant, and your gift must be funkily unique to you.

From The New Yorker May 27, 2016