frothily


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froth·y

 (frô′thē, frŏth′ē)
adj. froth·i·er, froth·i·est
1. Made of, covered with, or resembling froth; foamy.
2. Playfully frivolous in character or content: a frothy French farce.

froth′i·ly adv.
froth′i·ness n.
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Adv.1.frothily - in a frothy manner; "the champagne poured frothily into the glasses"
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Here floweth all blood putridly and tepidly and frothily through all veins: spit on the great city, which is the great slum where all the scum frotheth together!
Such was the reaction to the Aurat March that Orya Maqbool Jan, a man who in a different kind of country would be little more than a neighbourhood crank baying at the moon, devoted a significant amount of time on his TV show to frothily attack women for asking to be spared the ordeal of receiving unsolicited pictures of male genitalia.
In the revival, former network reporter Murphy is now on cable with the frothily titled "Murphy in the Morning." Along for the ride at the fictitious CNC news channel are her old "FYI" news magazine colleagues, including Regalbuto's Frank Fontana, Faith Ford's Corky Sherwood and Grant Shaud's Miles Silverberg.
If you can let the hit-and-miss movie's familiar denouement slide, it's hard not to get swept off your feet by the romantic sparks that frothily fly when Jameson and Janella are together onscreen.
Nottage--who won a Pulitzer for Ruined in 2009 and since wrote the frothily subversive By the Way, Meet Vera Stark--had been interested in the fragile state of the U.S.
THE VERDICT This colourful and engaging sequel to Planes (itself a spin-off from the mega-hit Cars franchise) offers up frothily entertaining firefighting animated fun that should hit the summer holiday sweetspot.
Smith is an assistant director of theater arts at New Mexico State University, with training as an improvisational comedian, and based on Suzanne Adams' frothily directed production of "Drinking Habits'' Friday night, he knows how to make an audience laugh.