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  • adverb In a way that is livid.

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  • adverb in a livid manner

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Examples

  • By the numbers, nothing trumps Southern Baptists in Mississippi, and their leaders remained lividly in support of Personhood.

    Burns Strider: 6 Reasons Mississippians Said No to "Personhood" Amendment Burns Strider 2011

  • By the numbers, nothing trumps Southern Baptists in Mississippi, and their leaders remained lividly in support of Personhood.

    Burns Strider: 6 Reasons Mississippians Said No to "Personhood" Amendment Burns Strider 2011

  • By the numbers, nothing trumps Southern Baptists in Mississippi, and their leaders remained lividly in support of Personhood.

    Burns Strider: 6 Reasons Mississippians Said No to "Personhood" Amendment Burns Strider 2011

  • He lay corpse-still, his face lividly bruised, his matted hair tangled against the pillows.

    Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

  • He is lividly angry to confront that dichotomy of his buddies versus his beliefs.

    Balkinization 2007

  • I mean, she sounded like someone who is both inherently mad and also someone who is absolutely lividly furious at the circumstances she finds herself in, and is trying to claw her way back to looking like a good girl, while repeating her carefully memorised points over and over.

    Quote out of context | clusterflock 2009

  • Above that terrible nesting-place of gloom the stories of the mute houses were lividly outlined; at the very top, the chimneys stood palely out.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the statue.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • And yet that inconvenient fact can be erased quite easily by the GOP's terrific army of professional liars, who will keep lividly implying that Sequoia was a weapon in the Democratic plot to sieze power in Olympia.

    Mark Crispin Miller: How To Pre-empt a "November Surprise" 2008

  • In short, Bush/Cheney's movement is projective, lividly imputing their own darkest impulses to everybody else.

    Interview: the psychology of mass deception 2008

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