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the media was effusive in their praise
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gave an effusive speech
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Effusively, Laura greets Carla and Sandi. (source)Effusively = enthusiastically expressing happiness and approval
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She filled all the spaces with effusive speech, delivered in a high, ringing voice.† (source)
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I said, although surely I didn't sound quite as effusive now that I was completely faking it.† (source)
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DELPHI/HERMIONE (effusively): Men!† (source)effusively = in a manner that enthusiastically expresses happiness or approval
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Sure, Sal sounded talkative on his website, but would he be so effusive in person?† (source)
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Clara thanked me effusively and found it ever so lovely, but she never put it on.† (source)effusively = in a manner that enthusiastically expresses happiness or approval
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No sooner had they dismounted in the stables than the reception rooms were overflowing with numerous unknown relatives whose unbearable effusiveness was a scourge to Fermina Daza, for she was incapable of ever loving anyone else in this world, she suffered from saddle burn, she was dying of fatigue and loose bowels, and all she longed for was a solitary and quiet place to cry.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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They ate, thanked Roxy and her man Zack in the simple uneffusive mountain fashion, and started away in the twilight of dawn.† (source)uneffusive = not enthusiastic in expressing happiness or approvalstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uneffusive means not and reverses the meaning of effusive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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The expert was effusive.† (source)
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The mouse recognized him and sat up, washing his face with his front paws and chattering effusively.† (source)effusively = in a manner that enthusiastically expresses happiness or approval
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Maybe I slapped her thigh in my effusiveness, I don't know.† (source)
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He saw her just as he had seen her in history class, a pencil between her teeth, one hand laid against the nape of her neck, lost behind her effusive hair.† (source)
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I thanked him effusively, waving with giddy affection as I sailed through one of the unmanned doors into the terminal, where I spotted my friend Billy waiting for me.† (source)
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The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future.† (source)
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