[
US
/ˈpɫɛzəntɫi/
]
[ UK /plˈɛzəntli/ ]
[ UK /plˈɛzəntli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a cheerful manner
`I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly -
in an enjoyable manner
we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon
How To Use pleasantly In A Sentence
- The carbonation is a little heavier than what I normally expect in a stout, but not unpleasantly so. Miasmatic Review
- We put through a couple of days pleasantly enough, after our hardish bit of work. Robbery Under Arms
- Put all the fruit in a saucepan on a gentle heat and add a couple of tablespoons of caster sugar and a slug of something pleasantly alcoholic such as brandy, whisky or even sherry.
- Around me the room was pleasantly dark, rolling in drunken contentedness.
- I was pleasantly surprised to see him shown in such a spiritually redeeming light.
- It's a guid deed we'll 'a doon this day," he remarked, pleasantly. CHAPTER 25
- What others have failed to duplicate is the appealing shopping experience found in these pleasantly feminine one-stop-shopping specialty stores.
- Part of this may be cultural — Korean variety shows certainly display a pleasantly anything-goes aesthetic — but my sense is that merely singing in English semiotically signals a certain kind of Muzak quality within a dramatic context. Archive 2008-04-01
- Slim means pleasantly thin. It is often used to describe women who have controlled their weight by diet or exercise:She has a beautifully slim figure.
- I was pleasantly surprised to find my ingenious, distant relative had a setup I had never imagined.
