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Recent Examples of enticingly
Skipper, for his part, was enticingly exotic to Pym.
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Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
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
While the water of the San Dieguito Reservoir may be enticingly clean and blue, the Santa Fe Irrigation District (SFID) wants to remind residents that the reservoir is not meant for recreational uses like fishing.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
Each visit to the surprising, enticingly spicy Uyghur restaurant — which is unexpectedly located in Menlo Park — is like a crash course on the cuisine’s diverse noodles and varying characteristics.
—Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
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
While the water of the San Dieguito Reservoir may be enticingly clean and blue, the Santa Fe Irrigation District (SFID) wants to remind residents that the reservoir is not meant for recreational uses like fishing.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
Each visit to the surprising, enticingly spicy Uyghur restaurant — which is unexpectedly located in Menlo Park — is like a crash course on the cuisine’s diverse noodles and varying characteristics.
—Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enticingly
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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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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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.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Sun Ra’s intro wandered, appealingly arrhythmic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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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The potato stacks pair beautifully with roast beef, steak, chicken, or sautéed fish.—
Victoria Spencer,
Martha Stewart,
3 Apr. 2026
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And what that means is his musical ideas come out beautifully and sound like sentences and sound like music.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The atmosphere is welcoming and wonderfully unpretentious.—
Lauren Schuster,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
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This year’s honorees are extraordinary—bold, brilliant, and wonderfully unapologetic.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Known for being flashy and a workaholic, he was rewarded handsomely for his efforts, earning multimillion yearly bonuses on top of eight-figure contracts.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, key figures in Iran’s power structure are profiting handsomely from the very disruption that a protocol might resolve.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
2 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
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“Enticingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enticingly. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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