as in deliciously
in a pleasing way
a delightfully silly song about dancing bears
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Recent Examples of delightfully
Wash after wash, the sheets become delightfully softer in a cozy, lived-in way.
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Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
The seating options are delightfully varied — from comfy couches to high-back chairs.
—Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
With more than 300 special events, delightfully spooky décor, and haunting art installations, 31 Days of Denton Halloween promises hair-raising fun for the whole family.
—Kristen Tribe, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
Both spooky and delightfully funny.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
Flowers are woolly purple wands, nicely complemented by gray-green foliage that has a delightfully honeyed fragrance.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
That mindset leads to no shortage of delightfully blasé supernatural adventures rife with magic and curses.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
D’Angelo rebuffed our yearning for a traditional career long enough to eke out a delightfully unpredictable final decade.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
This is delightfully illustrated in Raymond Queneau’s Exercises In Style, which tells the same short and simple story ninety-nine different ways.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
The seating options are delightfully varied — from comfy couches to high-back chairs.
—Kathryn Streeter, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
With more than 300 special events, delightfully spooky décor, and haunting art installations, 31 Days of Denton Halloween promises hair-raising fun for the whole family.
—Kristen Tribe, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
Both spooky and delightfully funny.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
Flowers are woolly purple wands, nicely complemented by gray-green foliage that has a delightfully honeyed fragrance.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
That mindset leads to no shortage of delightfully blasé supernatural adventures rife with magic and curses.
—Abby Monteil, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
D’Angelo rebuffed our yearning for a traditional career long enough to eke out a delightfully unpredictable final decade.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
This is delightfully illustrated in Raymond Queneau’s Exercises In Style, which tells the same short and simple story ninety-nine different ways.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for delightfully
Adverb
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That sums up this cake deliciously—and the two glazes just put it over the top.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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Price is deliciously diabolical in the film, which is full of literal and metaphorical trap doors and secret passageways.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Grisham would fit nicely in center field in Philadelphia, and Citizens Bank Park needs no introduction as a hitter's haven.—
Shaun McAvoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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Again, all three videos have audio, and this time, Perplexity’s and Veo 3’s audio pairs quite nicely with their videos.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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And for traveling aesthetes, great-looking new hotels, restaurants, wineries, and galleries might make the Algarve even more desirable.—
Chadner Navarro,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
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The audience also erupted each time Leonard scored; the Aztecs great finished with a team-high 18 points.—
Kyle Kensing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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To that end, here’s a selection of the best (and most enjoyably bad) literary film and TV coming to streaming services this month.—
Emily Temple
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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While Atom is trying to manipulate Hermit into becoming the eyeball monster’s new human host, Joe first hides in a cage — in one of the episode’s most enjoyably scary scenes — before Wendy comes to her brother’s rescue, using her machine-controlling superpowers to stop Atom cold.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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After retelling the life of Odysseus’ wife in the Songs of Penelope books, Claire North adopts a new perspective with a standalone space opera about a man reborn so many times over as to better resemble a monster.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Wisner also caught the ball well in the screen game and made several plays in pass protection.—
Dane Brugler,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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For now, the researchers say the discovery shows how finely balanced the body’s cellular responses are, and how small changes in that balance can mean the difference between a harmless sign of aging and a life-threatening disease.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Its world is finely wrought, its lead performance — from producer Blake Lively — is soulful and surprising.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Talamasca wants viewers to invest in these two as a pair — Guy as the resistant, questioning prodigy and Helen as his no-nonsense, charmingly manipulative mother figure — but the series doesn’t develop Guy well enough to make their relationship worth caring about.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2025
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Pitting vengeful ghosts against a backdrop of a supernatural love story, the film charmingly plays with genre to question how history and myth can probe collective and socio-political grief.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Just down the street from the colossal blue Scientology center (one of LA’s top locations for taking an ironic selfie) is Found Oyster, a delightful and perennially (pleasantly) crowded seafood restaurant inspired by clam shacks on the East Coast.—
Jocelyn Silver,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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With the dry season just beginning, the weather is pleasantly mild and idea for exploring.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Delightfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delightfully. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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