PLEASINGLY Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

pleasingly

adverb

Definition of pleasingly next

as in nicely

in a pleasing way the dining room at the inn has a pleasingly old-fashioned look to it

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Recent Examples of pleasingly But pleasingly, once my phone had some charge, the app downloaded quickly and instantly detected the camera when it was plugged in. —

New Atlas, 31 May 2026 Although the film pleasingly goes full Latin-American Peckinpah — yet with a far more convincing and righteous anti-colonial streak — threaded throughout are dreamlike interludes and flashbacks that provide generational historical context to the events and intensify the atmosphere. —

David Katz, IndieWire, 20 May 2026 As the United States has escalated its attacks on Iran, there’s something pleasingly transgressive about bringing Iranian elements into such overtly Western music—so much so that the songs without Yaghmai’s playing seem a little subdued in comparison. —

Molly Mary O’Brien, Pitchfork, 15 May 2026 That Directors’ Fortnight entry slightly overloaded on farcical complications but breezed along on the script’s daffy humor, its underlying sweetness and the director’s pleasingly light touch. —

David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 The resort was created by Turkish entrepreneur Esin Güral Argat, who believes in biophilic design – using nature in the decor to enhance a sense of wellbeing – which means lots of pleasingly curved edges and playful nods to the ocean. —

Ann Lee, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026 But there’s also something pleasingly and realistically melancholy about The Devil Wears Prada 2. —

Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Apr. 2026 Gast Studio’s Stem Vase, on show at group exhibition Deoron, features glossy oversized thorn shapes that give the object both a hostile presence and a pleasingly jagged profile, like a rose stem on steroids. —

Francesca Perry, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026 Brashly violent, clattery and pleasingly untied to any direct predecessor, the result is more generic than its braggy auteur claims might promise, but there’s a lot here for gorehounds to feast on. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026

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Exceptions include Rialto Pictures’ rerelease of Carol Reed’s classic 1949 film noir The Third Man, starring Orson Wells and written by Graham Greene, which did nicely at two theaters in new 35mm prints struck from an original internegative.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 June 2026
Available in black, white, or midnight blue, the headset features matte plastic earcups with big, soft memory foam earpads wrapped in a nicely supple faux leather.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 14 June 2026