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superbly

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su·perb  (s-pûrb)
adj.
1. Of unusually high quality; excellent: a superb wine; superb skill.
2. Majestic; imposing: The cheetah is a superb animal.
3. Rich; luxurious.
[Latin superbus, arrogant, superior; see uper in Indo-European roots.]
su·perbly adv.
su·perbness n.
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Adv.1.superblysuperbly - (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly"
marvellously, marvelously, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously
intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"


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Indeed, had I realised how superbly impressive they were going to be, I think I must have declined the adventure altogether,--for, robed in lustrous ivory-white linen were those figures of undress marble, the wealth of their glorious bodies pressing out into bosoms magnificent as magnolias (nobler lines and curves Greece herself has never known), towering in throats of fluted alabaster, and flowering in coiffures of imperial gold.
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Notwithstanding the importance of the challenge, on the 19th of May he received a sealed packet containing the following superbly laconic reply:
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He was an almost perfect specimen of manhood; tall, straight as an arrow, superbly muscled and with the carriage and bearing of a ruler of men.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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