Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an appealing or entreating manner; beseechingly.

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  • adverb In an appealing manner.

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  • adverb in an appealing manner

Etymologies

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From appealing + -ly adverbial suffix.

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Examples

  • He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”

    The Other Papa 2007

  • He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”

    The Other Papa 2007

  • He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”

    The Other Papa 2007

  • He had a knack for deploying the usual hippie self-absorption in appealingly vacuous ways: “All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration/There’s a whole generation with a new explanation.”

    The Other Papa 2007

  • We must run a tried-and-true conservative, and one that can express the views of conservatism clearly, succinctly, and appealingly, which is exactly what Reagan did.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • Each company has a captain who gives each of his soldiers a name that denotes action and can be demonstrated -- beginning with the letter "A" such as appealingly, angrily, etc.

    Games For All Occasions Mary E. Blain

  • Mr. Morris also appealingly acted the eager young hero, easily duped by enemies who use his own strength against him.

    And So the World Ended Heidi Waleson 2012

  • It's also one of its most appealingly credible aspects, as is the gritty atmosphere: the subway scenes with their up-close-and-personal contacts with strangers, the cramped tenement that's home to one of the girls.

    The Rich, the Bad, the Vengeful Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011

  • This sounds appealingly feasible; after all, government wasn't exactly skeletal in 2006.

    Responsible plans vs. Republican Study Committee's plans Ruth Marcus 2011

  • In a shrewd final chapter set in 2060, Ms. Ward links her appealingly varied cast of characters to a time when books and paintings have been largely supplanted by virtual reality.

    In Brief: Fiction Sam Sacks 2012

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