Definitions

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  • adverb In a way or to an extent that is rewarding

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  • adverb in a rewarding manner

Etymologies

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rewarding +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Gershwin was not a jazz musician; his music is not jazz, but his inherent sensitivity to African-American music allowed him to create music that was intelligently and rewardingly coloured by its textures and tonalities.

    Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall 2011

  • Victor Sjöström's silent Swedish classic "The Phantom Carriage" 1921, based on a novel by the Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, could be watched as rewardingly on Christmas or Easter, thanks to its religious content.

    The Horror, at Home David Mermelstein 2011

  • "A rewardingly complex portrait of a driven and troubled woman."

    Finding Iris Chang by Paula Kamen: Book summary 2010

  • Gershwin was not a jazz musician; his music is not jazz, but his inherent sensitivity to African-American music allowed him to create music that was intelligently and rewardingly coloured by its textures and tonalities.

    Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall 2011

  • After a proper CD-length release a couple of years ago, Hiss Golden Messenger as he is professionally known has adventured down a slightly more overgrown track, with the recent Bad Debt EP downbeat and conversational but rewardingly and tuneful.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • Significant steps were taken to make sure the infected are not confused with zombies, and the final effect of the eyes and vascularity are rewardingly frightening.

    THE CRAZIES Review – Collider.com 2010

  • This greybeard rewardingly spools back no end of grand matches, grand moments, and grand men.

    Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating 2011

  • Gershwin was not a jazz musician; his music is not jazz, but his inherent sensitivity to African-American music allowed him to create music that was intelligently and rewardingly coloured by its textures and tonalities.

    Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall 2011

  • He's barely visible at a party to mark the end of the 2009 Tour de France, and yet there is something fascinating about the mindset of a sportsman who puts himself again and again through punishing challenges without any ambition to win, and Bathurst coaxes him rewardingly out of his anonymity.

    The Bicycle Book by Bella Bathurst – review 2011

  • Transcending its self-defined parameters, his book makes you reflect rewardingly, too, about how other old, pluralist and only superficially modern societies in the region work.

    Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven – review 2011

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