as in cheerful
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Recent Examples of sparkly
Dress it up with nude heels or metallic platforms and accessorize with your favorite sparkly jewelry.
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Rachel Sylvester, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025
Chalamet sported a black tux with a navy blue scarf (plus the mustache, of course), while Jenner wore a silver, sparkly dress.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Jenner, meanwhile, let the sparkly look be the focal point, opting for minimal jewelry and soft glam.
—Robyn Merrett, StyleCaster, 6 Jan. 2025
An eye-catching diamond necklace and stud earrings by Tiffany & Co. added a sparkly element to the satiny ensemble.
—Hedy Phillips, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Rachel Sylvester, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025
Chalamet sported a black tux with a navy blue scarf (plus the mustache, of course), while Jenner wore a silver, sparkly dress.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Jenner, meanwhile, let the sparkly look be the focal point, opting for minimal jewelry and soft glam.
—Robyn Merrett, StyleCaster, 6 Jan. 2025
An eye-catching diamond necklace and stud earrings by Tiffany & Co. added a sparkly element to the satiny ensemble.
—Hedy Phillips, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sparkly
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But Lynch, who died last week, at seventy-eight, made films in which every cheerful surface seemed to obscure an eerie reality.—
Joshua Rothman,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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Videos of their vigorous, cheerful efforts soon went viral, drew international coverage and were a forceful counterpoint to Trump’s xenophobic insults.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The director wanted to write a role for Pearson that reflected the actor’s range and his effervescent charm.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
18 Jan. 2025
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There are a number of love stories here — Joe and Sugar figuring out if romance can conquer deception, Joe and Jerry testing their lifelong bond in the face of major personal change, and Daphne rebuffing and then reconsidering the effervescent millionaire Osgood (Edward Juvier).—
Chad Jones,
The Mercury News,
11 Jan. 2025
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Trillions of chirpy, red-eyed periodical cicadas emerged from underground in a rare double emergence event.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
25 Dec. 2024
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In Happy-Go-Lucky, Sally Hawkins plays Poppy, the world’s most cheerful, generous elementary-school teacher, a chirpy songbird in human form.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2024
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Despite her numbness, there was something unexpectedly buoyant in her movements.—
Samanta Schweblin,
The New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2025
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If not, that buoyant derby feeling would be zapped.—
Charlotte Harpur,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Despite the upbeat earnings news, shares in Comcast sank as much as 10% in the opening hour of the trading day – a dramatic move for a stock that typically moves in fractional increments.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2025
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The first half of the two-minute clip starts off upbeat, and we’re promised lots of deep conversations, jokes, and maybe a minor love triangle or two.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Wasn’t the entire point of season two making both the audience and Ted realize all the ways in which his ultra-chipper attitude and impenetrable optimism were a mask for decades of repressed sadness?—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Mar. 2023
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The super-chipper T.A. who serves as her driver and cheerleader (Rammel Chan) deposits Kate at a B&B whose snarling proprietor (Cindy Gold) seems to have chosen the wrong line of business.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Aug. 2020
Adjective
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There’s gonna be emergency after emergency, after asteroid, after nuclear-something-or-other, after truly world-ending stuff, and then perhaps there’ll be a horizon that’s a little bit brighter all the way at the finish line.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2025
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Maybe if the Bruins prioritized their drafting and development over the years, the future would be brighter.—
Shayna Goldman,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Right-leaning publications, meanwhile, suggested that the enthusiastic attention paid to Sweeney’s breasts had everything to do with the shifting political climate.—
Naomi Fry,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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For the past five seasons, the 2018 first-round draft pick has breathed new life into this franchise and its enthusiastic, table-crushing fanbase.—
Becky Sullivan,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Sparkly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sparkly. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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