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- adverb Alternative spelling of
colorfully .
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Examples
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Those with still more sensationalist tastes were eagerly anticipating the possibility that foolish CERN boffins - perhaps giving a chinese burn to a colleague operating the LHC's controls - might cause the Earth and human race to be catapulted through a runaway exponential-growth collapsar portal, nonexistence-bubble shift horizon etc into some kind of colourfully hostile parallel reality.
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Those with still more sensationalist tastes were eagerly anticipating the possibility that foolish CERN boffins - perhaps giving a chinese burn to a colleague operating the LHC's controls - might cause the Earth and human race to be catapulted through a runaway exponential-growth collapsar portal, nonexistence-bubble shift horizon etc into some kind of colourfully hostile parallel reality.
The Register 2008
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I idled away the minutes as the coffee cooled, breaking pieces off the muffin and staring dreamily out of the large windows at the beautiful people filling the sun drenched streets; amazingly perfect, colourfully dressed, beautiful people.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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That's the central question in this colourfully illustrated journey through history.
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The self-explanatory Books for Cooks is also home to the Test Kitchen – a bright little cafe space, the walls painted colourfully with pictures of De Cecco pasta packets, artichokes and aubergines – which every lunchtime puts some of those recipes from the shelves through their paces.
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A Danish non-governmental organization has created a simple online video game — colourfully titled Hit the Bitch — that allows players to slap a woman in the face, causing her to become bloody as bruised, as part of an advertising campaign designed to draw attention to domestic violence issues.
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With his facial twitch, the result of a serious 1990 car crash, and colourfully expressive manner, Redknapp has struggled to cast off the spivvy image that has dogged him through inconclusive Panorama and police investigations into his finances.
Harry Redknapp: the people's manager | Observer profile 2012
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"What I can't get over is that so good a first novel was written by the fuzz," Norman Mailer wrote, and in the gritty movie version Robert Mitchum played the doomed Irish-American informer in a world where the lawyers, the cops and the crooks speak the same colourfully obscene language, have similar ethics and respect shared tribal loyalties.
The Town Philip French 2010
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A colourfully dressed sales assistant suddenly appeared out of nowhere and startled us.
Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010
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It revealed Grant to be a man haunted by plentiful demons, channelled into elegant and colourfully cynical piano ballads in the manner of Mssrs Nilsson and Newman.
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