[
UK
/dˈɛlɪkətli/
]
[ US /ˈdɛɫəkətɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛɫəkətɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a delicate manner
her fine drawn body
finely shaped features
How To Use delicately In A Sentence
- In their summary, they state that this ape's vocal organ is not capable of producing delicately modulated or controlled sounds.
- It consisted of delicately inlaying colored clays into white bodied pottery.
- For creative individuals, the siesta proffers a gift basket of ideas with which to consume an hour or so, the least spirited of which, to put it delicately, is the nap. Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
- In her current show, "Everything that Ever Existed Still Exists," Bird delicately -- even preciously -- petrifies images of infamous nuclear explosions in paint. Kimberly Brooks: Rebecca Bird Paints the Explosion
- Signaling my server for more brandy, I broke the cake in two, and delicately bit off a morsel.
- Her rotund torso and delicately etched facial features evince the monumental simplicity of an ancient fertility goddess.
- He writes taut, thrilling mysteries, delicately set against the backdrop of the sprawling Navajo Reservation.
- "Maybe he doesn't like females," Will said delicately.
- The complexion of the former class is that which we call a brunette, and the skin is most delicately smooth and soft. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
- Russia-born illustrator Yulia Brodskaya creates beautiful type treatments in delicately cut and curled three-dimensional paper sculptures. Boing Boing