delicately

adverb

del·​i·​cate·​ly

: in a delicate manner : with delicacy: such as

a

: with fastidiousness

picking delicately at the morsels on her plate

b

: with nice consideration

words delicately chosen to avoid further offense

c

: gently and precisely

stepping delicately from hummock to hummock

Word History

Etymology

Middle English delicatly, from delicat + -ly

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