voluptuously
Americanadverb
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The weather is gloriously damp, the town is voluptuously dreary.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2020
Phil, as well as his enormous growth as an opera composer since “Nixon,” for revealing many unexpected shadings and complexities, and making the Richard Strauss/Wagner parody in Act II blossom voluptuously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2017
He also began his voluptuously messy Red Paintings, chaotic collages assailed with a glorious repertoire of drips, splashes and smears.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2016
In other pictures, loneliness looks more like idiosyncrasy: a voluptuously curved gourd on a floral tablecloth, photographed by Heather Rasmussen, could be an expression of the individual mind’s unpredictable sallies against the world’s neatly printed expectations.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 11, 2015
Against her better judgment, she’d bought a new pair of vermilion high heels, the voluptuously curvy kind; not that she had her hopes up.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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