delectably
Americanadverb
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The hook, "you can use my lyrics as your captions", is a delectably scathing riposte to a musician who sniped her style.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg deliver the news—well-known to many Americans, if not to the frequenters of farmers markets—that the American food industry is wildly successful at keeping us safely and even delectably fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
But it’s a study of an existential death served in delectably cold and precise portions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
She also recognizes that if she doesn’t do it, no one else will – or worse, a diner or restaurant will do the job, but not as healthily or delectably.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
We have naturally taken our quotations in the order in which they presented themselves, and we have not advanced further than the second of the five delectably small volumes in which these travels are printed.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
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