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.
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Jada Star, a country singer from Tennessee, said: "I truly believe anyone can speak Welsh; it's such a lovely feeling to speak the language, it's a comfortable language."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Needless to say, the young narrator soon yearns to marry the lovely and ethereal Blanche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
“Now, a lovely family can have a big Thanksgiving dinner using it,” said Van Meter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Nice place, met a lot of lovely people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Well, that’s a lovely sentiment,” the Person from Corporate began, but she was interrupted by Jimmy.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Fanny and Stella, middle-class lovelies in hoop skirts, engage in a warm embrace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
Estrada’s top tip for growing these lovelies is to plant rhizomes horizontally and shallowly so that the top of the fleshy root is exposed.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
Persimmons, grapefruit, kumquats and perhaps the most delectable and elusive of all the mandarins: the tiny, seedless kishus — all of these little lovelies thrive in our climate.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2023
Hey my lovelies it’s with great disappointment that I willl not be performing this weekend @bbcstrictly due to testing positive with Covid 19.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2021
“Not terribly. They happened on a couple lovelies of their own. Not as lovely as yours, of course.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Introduced in 2025, the two-seat, mid-front-mounted GT replaced the retiring Roma, a lovelier and more astute interpretation of the brief, complete with a historically redolent “eggcrate” grille.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Lifestyle influencers make a vocation out of selling some lovelier version of life, presenting a model to which we can aspire.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
Barrymore also previously interviewed Armstrong on her US daytime TV show, The Drew Barrymore Show, saying the 12-year-old "could not have been lovelier".
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023
“She couldn’t have been lovelier and more generous,” Johnson said, adding that Lansbury was perfect for the scene in every way except one: “Not a gamer,” he explained.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
“Three princesses, each lovelier than the last,” he told their father.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Whether it’s “ba-dee-yah” or “ah-OOO-uh” or “na-na-na,” melding your voice with your neighbors’ can be the loveliest, most human experience around.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Los Angeles native’s cryptic social media presence is a gingerbread-crumb trail to the loveliest images you’ve never seen — but will, probably in your favorite magazine, in one to three months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Each rendering is a wager against oblivion, and Mr. Armitage’s is the loveliest wager of the lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Ben Dowell of The Times also awarded it five stars, describing Small Prophets as "the loveliest British comedy since Detectorists".
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
It was perhaps the loveliest moment in his life.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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