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Why is it "wonderfully" instead of "wonderful"? As far as I know adverbs are not usually used with such words as "look", "feel", etc. It's "you look beautiful", not "you look beautifully". So is "wonderfully" used to emphasize "like"? I'm a bit confused.

"Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy".

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Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy

wonderfully isn't modifying like, it's modifying look. She didn't look "wonderful, like a schoolboy", she looked "amazingly like a schoolboy".

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