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US
/ˈfeɪməsɫi/
]
[ UK /fˈeɪməsli/ ]
[ UK /fˈeɪməsli/ ]
ADVERB
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extremely well
he did splendidly in the exam
we got along famously -
in a manner or to an extent that is well known
in his famously anecdotal style
How To Use famously In A Sentence
- It may be a while before he flashes that famously photogenic toothy smile again. The Sun
- He looks downcast, a frown passing like a cloud over his famously large forehead.
- Golub, whose large-scale paintings drew inspiration from everything from Greek kouroi to images of male pornography, used a technique that was more sculpture than brushstroke, famously using a meat cleaver to create aggressive peaks on the canvas. Home | The New York Observer
- One hint could have been that his nomination brought immediate praise from both industry groups and Congressional republicans) and the topper of them all Bush sicophant Stephen Johnson (who famously sided with Buah and big industry in hampering states from enforcing higher greenhouse emmision standards and stifling his own Depts requests and reports on environmental problems). Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 8, 2010
- Most generally, Locke had argued famously that real essences are unknowable.
- One is Peter Butler Sr., a retired insurance executive now living in Pebble Beach, Calif., who is an advocate for Eddie Lowery, the 10-year-old boy who famously caddied for the victorious Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S. Bush-League Move by Hall of Fame?
- At 27, he's already a giant among local comic artists - and not just because of his large frame and infamously squeaky voice.
- Mr Greenspan is famously hard to interpret, and the motivation for his rate cut will no doubt remain unclear for now.
- The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
- Jefferson famously excised all miracles from his copy of the King James Bible; as a rationalist and a deist, he considered such stories to be needless embellishments.