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handsomely

[ UK /hˈændsʌmli/ ]
[ US /ˈhænsəmɫi/ ]
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  1. in an attractively handsome manner
    the volume was handsomely bound
  2. in a generously handsome manner
    India has responded handsomely by providing 3,000 men

How To Use handsomely In A Sentence

  • Window mullions were rebuilt, and birch plywood casework that handsomely echoes the 1950s was installed.
  • Librettos were also, however, published as part of a poet's collected works, in well-printed and handsomely bound editions.
  • The Windsor Beauties, painted for the Duchess of York (1662-8; Hampton Court, Royal Coll.), handsomely déshabillé and languorous, successfully capture the hedonistic climate of the court.
  • Quantities feed two handsomely but will stretch to three, even four, unless you have humungous appetites. Times, Sunday Times
  • At anchoring, we saluted the king with nine guns, and the general sent Mr Femell ashore handsomely attended in the pinnace, with a fine crimson awning, to present the king a fair gilt cup of ten ounces weight, a sword-blade, and three yards of _stammel_ [red] broad-cloth. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
  • Research requires an inquisitive and independent bent, and rewards these talents handsomely.
  • The mountains were covered with good bunch-grass, (_festuca_;) the water of the streams was cold and pure; their bottoms were handsomely wooded with various kinds of trees; and huge and lofty picturesque precipices where the river cut through the mountain. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
  • For my part, I did not embark in trade myself, having no capital, but I accepted the offer of a Gentoo merchant to lend him the use of my dustuck to cover his goods, for which he paid me handsomely. Athelstane Ford
  • The only men who behaved unhandsomely on the occasion were some of the Irish members, advocates of Repeal, who, with more than national brass, grounded their declinature on the galling yoke of the Saxon, and retreated to Connemara, doubtless exulting that in this instance at least they had freed themselves from "hereditary bonds. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
  • Successful people dare to fail but refuse to be defeated by failure. The keep changing themselves to face new difficulties and obstacles, and in the end win out handsomely. Dr T.P.Chia 
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