Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a voluptuous manner; with free indulgence in sensual pleasures; luxuriously; sensually: as, to live voluptuously.
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- adverb In a
voluptuous manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a shapely and voluptuous manner
- adverb in an indulgently voluptuous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ms. Lane herself elegantly stripped, but Ms. Von Teese literally took the audience's breath away with her voluptuously frolicsome splashing in the giant martini glass of her Cointreauversial number.
Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man) Beth Arnold 2010
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They curve and bulge voluptuously, and the artists, or whatever one chooses to call them, used the contours to lend depth to the paintings.
'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel Joe Morgenstern 2011
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And the contemporary focus includes some seductive objects that resonate with earlier pieces, such as a voluptuously curved jar of glistening micaceous clay by Lonnie Vigil of the Nambe Pueblo, displayed near a superb assortment of more traditional Pueblo pottery.
Shows That Defy Stereotypes Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Mr. Hollinghurst holds a cracked mirror to his fictional world—the narrative is broken into five jaggedly connected and richly ironic sections—but the formal complexity is wedded to voluptuously descriptive prose that would not have been out of place in the London of 1913, where the book begins.
Synthesis and Ambivalence Sam Sacks 2011
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The most visually striking aspect of the movie is its many shifts in visual styles, from the rich and voluptuously curvy musical sections, to the stop-motion-inspired shadow puppet narration sequences, to the squiggly interludes from your personal life.
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So, until this talented, brilliant, voluptuously coiffed man has his show back, we shall offer him our screens.
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The ceramics here are of a very high quality – often voluptuously beautiful – and this simple, serious archaeological encounter demonstrates that this museum is far from selling its intellectual soul.
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So, until this talented, brilliant, voluptuously coiffed man has his show back, we shall offer him our screens.
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In Michèle Roberts's fictional world, sensory experience presses voluptuously upon the reader's attention.
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love by Michèle Roberts Stevie Davies 2010
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Zawe Ashton as Salome, dancing to a ghetto blaster and voluptuously kissing the severed head, suggests an adolescent in the grip of fierce erotic imaginings.
Salome 2010
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