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Showily

adverb
1.
With ostentation; in an ostentatious manner.  Synonym: ostentatiously.
2.
In a fancy colorful manner.  Synonyms: flamboyantly, flashily.






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"Showily" Quotes from Famous Books



... not gay. The people come here to eat, to bathe, to take the air; and these are reasons enough for being here. Upon the artist, alert for social peculiarities, the scene made little impression, for to an artist there is a limit to the interest of a crowd showily dressed, though they blaze ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... wore during those hard days of garrison life at Gaeta, when she showed herself so brave and strong that the world said if she, instead of that very stupid young man her husband, had been king, the throne need not have been lost. The very cloak, made of light cloth showily faced with scarlet, was draped over a lay figure in one corner of the room. In the statue the folds of drapery over the right arm were entirely disarranged, simply rough clay. The day before they had ...
— Bits About Home Matters • Helen Hunt Jackson

... first shop where our party went in, two ladies, very showily dressed, were sitting at a table, looking at a great variety of pins, rings, and bracelets that the shopkeeper had placed before them. The articles were contained in little rosewood and mahogany trays, ...
— Rollo in Geneva • Jacob Abbott



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