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wackily

  • a word derived from wacky.

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The film invokes, individualizes, multiplies, takes apart and then wackily reassembles these enduring tropes.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

Holly Hunter is the cop who falls in love with Nicolas Cage’s criminal; on discovering they can’t have kids, they get involved in the most wackily innocent child abduction imaginable.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2018

This was a wackily, joyously raucous band unlike any I have ever encountered from any part of the world.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2018

He’s a trickster and a shape-shifter, and when his magic short-circuits, his shifting shapes go weirdly and wackily awry.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2016

In the years after the war, Futurist painting largely abandoned cars and trains to fall wackily in love with realistic vertiginous views from airplanes that suggest a jazzed-up Socialist Realism.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2014