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expansively

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ex·pan·sive  (k-spnsv)
adj.
1. Capable of expanding or tending to expand.
2. Broad in size or extent; comprehensive: expansive police powers.
3. Open and communicative; talkative or effusive: Wine made the guest expansive.
4. Grand in scale: an expansive lifestyle.
ex·pansive·ly adv.
ex·pansive·ness, expan·sivi·ty (kspn-sv-t) n.
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Adv.1.expansively - in an impressively expansive manner; "she managed to live rather expansively on her modest income"
2.expansively - in an ebullient manner; "Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression"
ebulliently, exuberantly


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