[
UK
/dɪlˈɪʃəsli/
]
[ US /dɪˈɫɪʃəʃɫi/ ]
[ US /dɪˈɫɪʃəʃɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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so as to produce a delightful taste
I bought some more of these deliciously sweet peaches -
in a very pleasurable manner
they were walking along the beach slowly and deliciously
How To Use deliciously In A Sentence
- His skin had felt deliciously cool against her heated flesh as his hard body moved against hers.
- Always a late riser, I'd wake up around eleven every morning to brunch at a deliciously set table where my ‘roomie’, as I called her, would regale me with the tale of her day so far.
- It was a glorious swansong, and her enormous grin and triumphant punching of the air as she mounted the podium were deliciously infectious. Times, Sunday Times
- Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles.
- It's deliciously grown-up, avoiding slapstick in favour of fortuitous mishap.
- For the many children participating it was a good opportunity to get close to mitten crabs, shrimp, fresh water mussels and even eels, as well as to a lot of deliciously slithery mud!
- A spot check on the rice produced exemplary grains, glossy and lustrous with the requisite stickiness, deliciously impregnated with the velvety richness of coconut milk.
- There's deliciously crisp Scottish lilt to her speaking voice, which is sadly lost when she sings.
- It was a glorious swansong, and her enormous grin and triumphant punching of the air as she mounted the podium were deliciously infectious. Times, Sunday Times
- There's deliciously crisp Scottish lilt to her speaking voice, which is sadly lost when she sings.