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UK
/hˈʌnɪd/
]
ADJECTIVE
- with honey added
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pleasing to the ear
the dulcet tones of the cello
How To Use honeyed In A Sentence
- The touch of ice wine lends the drink the slightest honeyed, apricot sort of nose, but doesn't interfere with the brisk essence of the classic martini, which is, above all, dry.
- That famous voice is never more honeyed than when it's saying - in a courteous, roundabout way - ‘No.’
- Jamie ordered fillet of beef wrapped in pancetta with port, shallot and foie gras ravioli, while I chose the loin of venison with fresh sage and honeyed Armagnac sweetbreads.
- Then the inevitable and auspicious slice of baklava, flaky and honeyed, which brings to mind ancient pleasures, Biblical decadence.
- This sumptuous wine has a strong amber green colour and a honeyed nose.
- The poem is re-created in glowing phrases — “A rich distilled perfume emanates from it like the breath of genius; a golden cloud envelops it; a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it, like the candied coat of the auricula”. The Common Reader, Second Series
- It's actually an island, a fourteen-mile sliver of sandy beaches whose name means ‘golden snake’ in the native Mayan language, and back then, a mere 120 people enjoyed its honeyed shores.
- That smile and that honeyed baritone make a lethal combination. Times, Sunday Times
- Morning light streamed through the windows of the small room he had rented for the night and the golden rays bathed the cot's only occupant in a rich honeyed glow.
- She had listened from a respectful distance, and with the humble deference born of years of bondage, to the honeyed words with which the great lady deigned to cajole a girl-slave: but when Dea Flavia had finished speaking and the chorus of admiration had died down around her, the freedwoman, with steps which she vainly tried to render firm, approached to the foot of the catasta and stood between the great lady and her own child. "Unto Caesar"