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• r  with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner
• r  in a fancy colorful manner

• Last week, in his concluding volume on Andrew Jackson, Author James offers a frankly-hinted explanation: ''Many good writers," he avers, "who now and again dash showily into the .
• His new state road board budgeted more roads than could possibly be built and showily awarded contracts just before the May primaries.
• After "going down" from the University he began to write novels that were so showily finespun, so self-consciously clever that they irritated many a reader.

• ostentatiously
• flamboyantly
• flashily

News & Articles

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• CAPTCHAs Are Becoming Security Theater
  As Google's ReCAPTCHA website puts it: "Tough on bots, easy on humans." But then along comes Google today noting, in a showily short and breezy blog post, that their machines can beat ReCAPTCHAs 99% of the time.  "Turns out that this new algorithm can also be used to read CAPTCHA puzzles—we found that it can decipher the hardest distorted text puzzles from reCAPTCHA with over 99 percent accuracy ...
  April 16, 2014 - The Atlantic via Yahoo! Finance