Lambent

Word to the Wise: Lambent

“Lambent” (LAM-bunt) – from the Latin for “lick” – means brilliantly playful, dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject.

Example (as used by Mark Costello in a New York Times review of Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst): “Dorst knowingly evokes the Gatsbyite lambency of local yuppie culture.”

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