as in delicious
very pleasing to the sense of taste
baked a scrumptious chocolate cake
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Recent Examples of scrumptious
Lola is the National’s scrumptious dining spot, often with live music and a fabulous drag brunch show on select Saturdays.
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Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
The little pull apart rolls are soft inside, crisp at the edges, and deliciously scrumptious.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
The food at this dreamy manor house nestled in the English countryside is scrumptious, with a choice of wines at lunch.
—Jocelyn Noveck, Twin Cities, 27 Aug. 2025
His eight-course menu was off-the-scale scrumptious, and made all the more so by eating it inside the single-story, simple crofter’s farmhouse, carpeted with straw, and lit with tea lights and candles in wall nooks.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
The little pull apart rolls are soft inside, crisp at the edges, and deliciously scrumptious.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
The food at this dreamy manor house nestled in the English countryside is scrumptious, with a choice of wines at lunch.
—Jocelyn Noveck, Twin Cities, 27 Aug. 2025
His eight-course menu was off-the-scale scrumptious, and made all the more so by eating it inside the single-story, simple crofter’s farmhouse, carpeted with straw, and lit with tea lights and candles in wall nooks.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrumptious
delicious
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The world is full of delicious Negroni variations, but few and far between are the ones that work as harmoniously as this.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
4 Oct. 2025
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Meaty, creamy and simply delicious!—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Scrumptious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrumptious. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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