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[ UK /ɛkskwˈɪsɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɛkskwəzət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. delicately beautiful
    a dainty teacup
    an exquisite cameo
  2. intense or sharp
    felt exquisite pleasure
    suffered exquisite pain
  3. of extreme beauty
    her exquisite face
  4. lavishly elegant and refined

How To Use exquisite In A Sentence

  • These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up. Times, Sunday Times
  • His small, exquisitely crafted pictures could look a bit twee.
  • Just as the exquisite sea-anemones and all the graceful ocean-flowers die out at some fathoms below the surface, the elegances and suavities of life die out one by one as we sink through the social scale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
  • These small exquisitely carved ivory figurines come in an almost limitless variety.
  • His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone. The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad
  • Authentic Chinese patterns come to life in silk jacquards, prints and exquisite beaded pieces.
  • We are now told, with equal wonder and admiration, that natural selection is the agent of exquisite design.
  • With each soft shadow and sharp crimp exquisitely rendered, the act of painting serves to overwhelm the subject.
  • International Food, cakes and preserves, exquisite craft, homemade sweets and lollies, pre-loved clothes and books and heaps more.
  • At ten to four I was awoken by a blackcap hopping along the tin roof, then striking up the most exquisite warbling, at first utterly solo in the half-light, soon joined by other birds. Wildwood
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