beauteous

Example Sentences

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Veronique Black, a friend of Koskimaki and his wife, Teresa, noted that the sad portrayal of the man was a direct contrast to the beauteous gleam of the wall.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

She regularly treated warmly expressive lyric passages as theatrically sudden pauses for slowly drinking in a beauteous sight before once again briskly moving on.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2022

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, and make me travel forth without my cloak, to let base clouds o’ertake me?

From Washington Post • May 10, 2018

Sure 'tis a place for punishment designed, / And not the beauteous happy spot I loved.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2015

Exception 3.—Final y is sometimes changed into e: as, duty + ous = duteous; beauty + ous = beauteous.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton