"Pellucid", meaning transparently clear, from Justice Stevens' otherwise puzzling opinion in today's Baze v. Reese, upholding Kentucky's method of execution.
UPDATE: As in, it is pellucidly clear that most TV chefs have research staffs find them other people's recipes for use in their shows.
4/16/2008
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"pellucidly clear"
Isn't that redundant? ;-)
Ah! In my defense, I did a google search for exactly that problem before I posted, and I found some examples, so I decided it probably wasn't the most stupid phrasing imaginable... Can you think of a use of pellucidly that isn't redundant, though?
Pellucid and lucid seem to be synonyms anyway. If you use pellucidly to modify a verb rather than an adjective or another adverb, I think it can be used non-redundantly. For example, "the water streamed pellucidly through the creek," or "the new windows shone pellucidly in the sunlight."
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