Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a delighted manner; with delight.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With delight; gladly.

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  • adverb In a delighted manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with delight

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Examples

  • Aside from being mounted amid spectacular, one-of-a-kind park system settings, guests are advised to wear "trail chic" attire, which the majority delightedly translates as blue jeans.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Catherine Bigelow 2010

  • Fragonard's The Swing, a sensuous rococo pastoral depicting a young swain delightedly looking up the dress of a young woman on a swing.

    Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994

  • "Mr. Hallowell," she went on, rolling the name delightedly on her tongue, "I need not tell you how greatly we spiritualists rejoice over your joining the ranks of the believers."

    Vera, the Medium Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • It composed her, and drinking it in delightedly, Fleda stood with folded arms in the doorway, half forgetting herself and her position, and going in fancy from the firs and the roses, over a very wide field of meditation indeed.

    Queechy 1854

  • Jack caught at the idea delightedly, and all being ready, boldly threw open the barn door and entered with drawn revolver, followed by the sheriff.

    The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

  • But before he could speak, a silk-robed figure stepped out onto the verandah of the Resident Engineer's office, and called delightedly,

    Out of the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet 1912

  • Now, if you know your "Alice" as well as you should, you will recall delightedly her dash after the White

    Greenwich Village Anna Alice Chapin 1900

  • She told us kind of delightedly that on a trip to Toronto she found a booth at a flea market that carried the DVD releases.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Will 2006

  • He scratched his head delightedly and his fingers blundered into an unfamiliar groove.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • The BBC delightedly report that: "A group of British MPs is due to visit Gaza to assess the effects of the recent Israeli military offensive."

    This group should produce an unbiased report... Not a sheep 2009

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