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lovely

[luhv-lee] / ˈlʌv li /


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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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He rarely shares what he’s thinking, although there’s one lovely image of him gazing at the sun through his woven hand, perhaps quietly contemplating his own existence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Which is a pretty lovely way for a party to end.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

"I had a lovely birth with her, a water birth. She was nearly two weeks overdue like her big sister but everything was fine and she was born perfectly healthy," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

This isn’t a knock on the French, who can be lovely people when they aren’t rioting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

His bow glided back and forth, his fingers danced across the strings, and a lovely old folk song filled the room.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

But the settings—sailboats, grottoes, caves, lush gardens, elegant townhouses—couldn’t be lovelier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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

I was nervous, and she couldn't have been lovelier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

He knew that the scene must be even lovelier than it now looked to him, viewed as it was through a fog of exhaustion that blurred his senses and his mind.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

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

But if “What Do You Mean?” deploys a more conventional tropical-house production, it’s still built around one of the singer’s loveliest vocals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

Finn’s hyperactive sense of smell and bottomless appetite provide lighthearted comic relief, while the descriptions of Chase running are some of the book’s loveliest passages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

This is the single loveliest thing anyone’s ever done for me.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven


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