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Definition of Splashily
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splashily
Literary usage of Splashily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1901)
"... laughter when the Imp climbed upon the edge of the bath-tub to illustrate the
proper method of balancing on a rope, and fell suddenly and splashily in? ..."
2. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"They were of a kind we had not seen before, and I think the least pretty—red,
black, and blue plumage, but laid on too splashily for harmonious effect. ..."
3. Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1897)
"... broadly, almost splashily, painted, and the very antithesis as to method of
anything Tuscan or Milanese, are exceedingly strong (if somewhat hot) in ..."
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