delightfully

Example Sentences

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“They are so delightfully immature that I felt like they were my cousins,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Elsewhere, we look at a delightfully spicy confirmation hearing this week, Illinois primary results, and the president’s announcement of a member of Congress’ imminent death.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

Discarding any preconceptions about Eurovision, it is delightfully, mesmerisingly bonkers.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

By filtering such a common feeling through a strange and delightfully unsettling narrative lens, “By Design” contends with our modern restlessness in far more memorable fashion than many big-budget, big-idea films of the last year.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial—fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann