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Palm Beach, Florida - at the heart of the Madoff financial quake and once described as a sunny place inhabited by shady people - will, say some observers, never be the same again.

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  1. adjective Exposed to or abounding in sunshine: a sunny room.
  2. adjective Cheerful; genial: a sunny smile.

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  • The whole scene was almost Italian--sunny, graceful, restful. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • The end of it was that, three weeks later, these four, with many other men and women of all ranks and conditions, found themselves on board the good ship Lapwing_, ploughing their way through the billows of the broad Atlantic Ocean bound for the sunny isles of the Antipodes Wheels within wheels--worlds within worlds--seems to be the order of nature everywhere. —  The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
  • The weather was bright and sunny, as I have said, and the glitter of uniforms and thousands of bayonets with the broad blaze reflected from a long line of polished field-pieces, sent a thrill through many a heart, suggesting "glory." —  In the Track of the Troops
  • No! Westward, like the Genoese, we boldly venture--over the dark wild waves of the rolling Atlantic; through among the sunny islands of Ind--westward to the land of Anahuac. —  The Rifle Rangers
  • Two or three times a day this quiet is broken by the sudden thunder from a quarry, where the workmen are blasting rocks for the dam; and a peal of thunder sounds strange in such a green, sunny, and quiet landscape, with the blue sky brightening the river I have not seen much of the people. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
 

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pleasant ·  grassy ·  moonlit ·  lovely ·  shady ·  spacious ·  tranquil ·  dim ·  snowy ·  radiant ·  windy ·  bleak

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sunny:   sunnier
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. = Dutch zonnig = German sonnig; as sun + -y.
  2. Dim. of sun(fish).
 

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