Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a delightful manner: in a manner to afford great pleasure; charmingly.
- With delight; delightedly.
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- adverb In a
delightful manner.
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- adverb in a delightful manner
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Examples
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One finds the title delightfully apt, as we trace the lives of Chandni (Eesha Koppikar) and Prem (Sood) who fell in love during a singing competition.
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In truth, he has written as easily about love as he has about tyranny, as nimbly about rabid dictators as about powerless artists; he has given us "Vargas Llosa light," in delightfully erotic (thinly veiled autobiographical) stories, and "Vargas Llosa dark," in elaborately researched and profoundly illuminating historical novels.
The power of Mario Vargas Llosa's words led the political writer to Nobel Prize Marie Arana 2010
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She was so very clear-eyed about the foibles of her peers and wrote about them in delightfully wry ways.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
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In truth, he has written as easily about love as he has about tyranny, as nimbly about rabid dictators as about powerless artists; he has given us "Vargas Llosa light," in delightfully erotic (thinly veiled autobiographical) stories, and "Vargas Llosa dark," in elaborately researched and profoundly illuminating historical novels.
The power of Mario Vargas Llosa's words led the political writer to Nobel Prize Marie Arana 2010
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But the Cenobites remain delightfully eerie (and sexy) creations, as does the "Lemarchand configuration."
Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn... stsisyphus 2008
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Matters as simple as ordering an ordinary comida corrida and paying for it and shopping at a tianguis are described in delightfully colorful detail.
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Matters as simple as ordering an ordinary comida corrida and paying for it and shopping at a tianguis are described in delightfully colorful detail.
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While she pursues information about the likely suspects, Isabel engages in delightfully thorny debates, with herself and others, about the possible outcomes of moral choices along the way.
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith: Questions 2004
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It’s a decade of Whatever, presented in delightfully random form — just the way it should be.
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The name is delightfully misleading: There are actually close to 300 fountains here.
Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011
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