delightfully

delightfully

English

Etymology

    From delightful + -ly.

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    Adverb

    delightfully (comparative more delightfully, superlative most delightfully)

    1. In a delightful manner.
      • 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times[1]:
        The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.

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