Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a munificent manner; with remarkable liberality or generosity.
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- adverb In a
munificent manner.
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- adverb in a generous manner
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Examples
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The financial engineers who very nearly sank the ship of state were permitted to reward themselves munificently while the public bailout brigade that did the bailing were left holding their rusted buckets, and even then, if they didn't bow humbly and comply to the financial engineers 'admonitions, even those rusty buckets along with their homes were taken from them.
Raymond J. Learsy: America's Anger at the Great Financial Bailout and the Press' Continuing Inability To Understand Why Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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The financial engineers who very nearly sank the ship of state were permitted to reward themselves munificently while the public bailout brigade that did the bailing were left holding their rusted buckets, and even then, if they didn't bow humbly and comply to the financial engineers 'admonitions, even those rusty buckets along with their homes were taken from them.
Raymond J. Learsy: America's Anger at the Great Financial Bailout and the Press' Continuing Inability To Understand Why Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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The financial engineers that very nearly sank the ship of state were permitted to reward themselves munificently while the public bailout brigade that did the bailing were left holding their rusted buckets, and even then, if they didn't bow humbly and comply to the financial engineers 'admonitions, even those rusty buckets along with their homes were taken from them.
Raymond J. Learsy: America's Anger at the Great Financial Bailout and the Press' Continuing Inability To Understand Why Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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The financial engineers who very nearly sank the ship of state were permitted to reward themselves munificently while the public bailout brigade that did the bailing were left holding their rusted buckets, and even then, if they didn't bow humbly and comply to the financial engineers 'admonitions, even those rusty buckets along with their homes were taken from them.
Raymond J. Learsy: America's Anger at the Great Financial Bailout and the Press' Continuing Inability To Understand Why Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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The financial engineers that very nearly sank the ship of state were permitted to reward themselves munificently while the public bailout brigade that did the bailing were left holding their rusted buckets, and even then, if they didn't bow humbly and comply to the financial engineers 'admonitions, even those rusty buckets along with their homes were taken from them.
Raymond J. Learsy: America's Anger at the Great Financial Bailout and the Press' Continuing Inability To Understand Why Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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The financial engineers who very nearly sank the ship of state were permitted to reward themselves munificently while the public bailout brigade that did the bailing were left holding their rusted buckets, and even then, if they didn't bow humbly and comply to the financial engineers 'admonitions, even those rusty buckets along with their homes were taken from them.
Raymond J. Learsy: America's Anger at the Great Financial Bailout and the Press' Continuing Inability To Understand Why Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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When we arrived at the airport, Mr. Steczynski munificently used his black AmEx to treat all three of us to first-class seats on the next flight to JFK.
Elixir Hilary Duff 2010
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Your bags are being conveyed to the front entry of this fine establishment, where the porters will perform the necessary maneuvers with the customary expertise for which they are so munificently compensated.
DBTL 75: Respect Johnny Pez 2010
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The financial engineers who very nearly sank the ship of state were permitted to reward themselves munificently while the public bailout brigade that did the bailing were left holding their rusted buckets, and even then, if they didn't bow humbly and comply to the financial engineers' admonitions, even those rusty buckets along with their homes were taken from them.
Raymond J. Learsy: America's Anger at the Great Financial Bailout and the Press' Continuing Inability To Understand Why Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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Not one in one hundred Americans understands how money is created in the present-day world*, how much privilege is given to a craven, non-productive financial elite, how they have engineered all the major crises of the past one hundred years, how they have funded ALL sides of every conflict with their laughable and tragic paper money that has benefited them and their ilk so munificently.
Abolish the Fed and Return Money Creation Power to Congress 2009
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