look lively

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look lively

verb looks lively · looking lively · looked lively

  1. imperative Synonym of look alive. The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.

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@misc{look_lively_2026,
  title = {look lively},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/look%20lively},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}