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Recent Examples of appealingly
The glassy, 36-story building offers an appealingly down-to-earth, accessible, community-minded style of luxury that’s right at home in a city renowned for its food, culture, and friendliness.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
Sun Ra’s intro wandered, appealingly arrhythmic.
—Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
Kirk is appealingly standoffish, if such a thing might be imagined.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
It was announced in 2021 with great fanfare and an appealingly low price of just $40,000.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 15 Dec. 2025
Nguyen, who publishes heady critical essays on Substack, has some appealingly contrarian thoughts.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2025
Lloyd is appealingly sympathetic as his sharp son, while Judge Reinhold once again is a superb straight man, as a noodly, overly rational shrink with a weakness for pretentious sweaters.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
Three or four decades ago, the newspaperman was appealingly raffish—at once a bum who drank too much and a knight-errant who charged unafraid at social injustice, succored the weak, and crossed lances with the powerful and arrogant.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
This is a risk because Cliff, of course, is already betrothed to the appealingly sensible Brittany.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
Sun Ra’s intro wandered, appealingly arrhythmic.
—Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
Kirk is appealingly standoffish, if such a thing might be imagined.
—Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
It was announced in 2021 with great fanfare and an appealingly low price of just $40,000.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 15 Dec. 2025
Nguyen, who publishes heady critical essays on Substack, has some appealingly contrarian thoughts.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2025
Lloyd is appealingly sympathetic as his sharp son, while Judge Reinhold once again is a superb straight man, as a noodly, overly rational shrink with a weakness for pretentious sweaters.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
Three or four decades ago, the newspaperman was appealingly raffish—at once a bum who drank too much and a knight-errant who charged unafraid at social injustice, succored the weak, and crossed lances with the powerful and arrogant.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
This is a risk because Cliff, of course, is already betrothed to the appealingly sensible Brittany.
—Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for appealingly
Adverb
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Skipper, for his part, was enticingly exotic to Pym.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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The widely varied performances are quietly yet keenly expressive; Reichardt’s dialogue has enticingly odd spin (starting with an ingenious monologue for a precocious child) and the cast delivers it with pinpoint inflections.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In fact, tech is now nearly as attractively valued as consumer staples.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2026
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The vegetables, fruit, and baskets of potatoes were attractively arranged.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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In the case of Brentford’s Dango Ouattara and West Ham’s El Hadji Malick Diouf, their assists were more eye-catching than the goals themselves because of the way in which both players crossed the ball so invitingly, with a mixture of conviction and precision, and also from so far back.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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The duo provides an invitingly sweet alcoholic heat that sinks into the crumb of the brioche-like cake, giving each bite a literal burst of flavor.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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His is a wily, chaotic, satirical and sincere, temptingly unwieldy epic drama.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 Nov. 2025
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What that means is even if the door opens and the tarmac looks temptingly walkable, think twice before stepping off.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
24 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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My dress and his suit were somehow unscathed, and the photos came out beautifully.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
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Fire and ice do clash beautifully, but the action here is merely serviceable and dark.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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But the writer-director behind The Green Knight and A Ghost Story has taken the most accessible subject imaginable — stratospheric pop stardom — and made something wonderfully, gloriously weird out of it.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 Apr. 2026
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Set in both Egypt and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cronin’s wonderfully inventive script drags one of cinema’s oldest tropes out of its sarcophagus and into a modern American home.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
14 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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John Houseman tippy toes briefly as a dry old bean and stuffy grammarian, emblematic of the stultified staff at Fox’s magazine of employment; unfortunately, Houseman’s marvelously fussy presence is only one of the film’s intermittent garnishes, most of which are never developed and never pay off.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2026
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The baritone, Vincent Casagrande, a marvelously cantankerous Prisoner, tells us only sick people dream, and of course everyone on stage automatically enters a dream state.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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And Iran was profiting handsomely off its sales, selling its oil for a premium of several dollars above the price of Brent crude, the international benchmark.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, the tech billionaires (who will profit handsomely from AI) are all lining up behind MAGA.—
Matt K. Lewis,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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“Appealingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/appealingly. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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