delightfully
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From delightful + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]delightfully (comparative more delightfully, superlative most delightfully)
- In a delightful manner.
- 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.