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  • adverb In a fancy manner

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Examples

  • A legal and substantial kennel industry has developed into what is fancily called "dog spas" where the middle class deposit their dogs when on holiday or, in the case of some of my conflicted relatives, when a devout auntie comes to stay.

    Dogs: Iran's new symbol of rebellion Masoud Golsorkhi 2010

  • This health care deform bill is nothing but a fancily wrapped gift to greedy private insurance corporations.

    Think Progress » Senate GOP Candidate Carly Fiorina Flip-Flops On Cap-And-Trade 2010

  • STAMBERG: But Boudin's pictures are full of fancily dressed men and women - long skirts, flowery hats, bowlers, suits, vests - sitting and strolling on the sand, holding parasols against the sun.

    Eugene Boudin: The Man Who Inspired Monet 2010

  • STAMBERG: But Boudin's pictures are full of fancily dressed men and women - long skirts, flowery hats, bowlers, suits, vests - sitting and strolling on the sand, holding parasols against the sun.

    Eugene Boudin: The Man Who Inspired Monet 2010

  • Listening to Gamble's remixes and his own tracks, we are reminded variously of the darkly monolithic synth chords of Salem's witch house, the relentlessly twitchy beats and chopped-and-diced R&B vocals from DJ Nate's fancily frenetic footwork we've just got a copy of his hour-long, 25-track Da Trak Genious CD and it is, frankly, barking and the abstract dubstep of FFF and Becoming Real.

    Girl Unit (No 917) Paul Lester 2010

  • Cristal and Dom Perignon were served to fancily dressed bold-faced names in, remember, a supermarket.

    Social safeway reopens with bizarre fete 2010

  • The most impressive-looking were the Random House statements that came in on big computer fold paper all very fancily printed by computers.

    Archive 2009-03-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • People on stilts wearing costumes and fancily dressed dancers, that even danced with some spectators and some dancing on floats.

    Page 3 2007

  • People on stilts wearing costumes and fancily dressed dancers, that even danced with some spectators and some dancing on floats.

    Page 3 2007

  • They spend all their time as tourists traveling around the world, dressing up very fancily, wearing a lot of make-up and trying to look young, in an attempt to run away from the reality of their lives.

    A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Three: The Preliminaries, Continued 2009

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