showily
Americanadverb
Other Word Forms
- unshowily adverb
Etymology
Origin of showily
Example Sentences
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The showily exoticized wallpaper, sold throughout Europe and in North America by celebrated manufacturer Joseph Dufour, was the culmination of Western public fascination with British Royal Navy Capt. James Cook’s three voyages to the Pacific.
From Los Angeles Times
He was panting again, this time more showily.
From Los Angeles Times
Attorney General Pam Bondi showily gave them binders of "Epstein files," which proved to be just the already public information, because there isn't any more.
From Salon
Three such titles this year are a heat-seeking troika that involve American notables who, after a period of relative domestic quiet, have showily returned to the international stage.
From New York Times
It also allows Miller to give the kind of showily effective double-trouble performance that, whatever you think of it, resists the generally flattening, blandifying effects of the superhero template.
From Los Angeles Times
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