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View synonyms for showily

showily

[ shoh-uh-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a showy manner.


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Other Words From

  • un·showi·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of showily1

First recorded in 1780–90; showy + -ly
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Example Sentences

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.

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.

McCarthy had showily given Carlson access to previously unreleased footage of the Capitol riot, no doubt with the full understanding that Carlson would put out flat-out lies about what happened that day.

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What matters is the symbolism of using footage that McCarthy very showily granted him.

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And when Page showily holds aloft the proclamations dividing Lear’s kingdom, you’re reminded of the hubris of another recent leader, seated behind the Oval Office desk grandiosely doing the same.

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