lovely
Usage
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Something or someone that is lovely is attractive in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. That which is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower.
Example Sentences
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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were loveably and volleyball.
From New York Times • May 8, 2023
“After ‘Get Out’ came out, basically every producer and studio wanted to meet with me,” he said, referencing the Oscar-winning comedic social thriller in which he played the loveably profane TSA agent Rod.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2018
Advertisement Lessing was the last of a loveably, brilliantly irascible generation of writers who never stopped screaming about the horrors of the American century that they were stuck in.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2013
Vocabulary lists containing lovely
Call of Beauty: Synonyms for "Beautiful"
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