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delightfully

C1 Topic:Describing Qualities
US /dɪˈlaɪtfəli/
Freq #34818

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    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.

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Etymology

From delightful + -ly.

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