delightfully

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English

Etymology

From delightful +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

delightfully (comparative more delightfully, superlative most delightfully)

  1. In a delightful manner.
    • 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times:
      The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.