Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an elegant manner; with elegance.
Wiktionary
- adv. gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a gracefully elegant manner
- adv. with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner
Etymologies
- elegant + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.”
“What most, who let this term elegantly drop into a discussion, like to forget is, that a hype cycle doesn't care about the usefulness of a technology, doesn't care about the acceptance, the number of users, doesn't care about the volume of business ... it only models the volume of buzz in the press.”
“But in case your home uses plenty of glass, then a stone mantle styled elegantly is also an excellent choice.”
“Knowing our views regarding the use of wine as a beverage, Mr. Wu had provided delicious tea in elegantly decorated covered china cups, and sweatmeats by way of compensation.”
“The prince, however, was mindful of me, and the next day I received from the Persian embassy the word elegantly written in Persian, with the translation, "_a pelican_.”
“Talmud tells us that the only language the Torah could be translated into elegantly is Greek.”
Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Kislev 19, 5770 - December 6, 2009 ]
“Well, I think what Norman Mailer’s book The Executioner’s Song does so elegantly is it describes the psychological state that landscape creates.”
“Is it just me, or are Singaporean chicks know how to dress up more 'elegantly' than our local ladeez?”
“The envelope was made from thick linen-based paper and had Velma’s name elegantly embossed on the flap.”
“She wonders all day, before dancing school, if that handsome man who dances so "elegantly" and says such nice things to her, will ask her to dance with him to-night, and finds herself dreaming of how delightful it would be to feel his arm about her.”
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