mellifluous
adjective
sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: mellifluous tones.
mellifluously
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a word derived from
mellifluous.
Example Sentences
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Joyce’s words rang out mellifluously at the start of the production, but as the main characters emerged from the reading, some of the musicality of the writing was lost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
What a cruel fate to befall a man whose thoughts once danced off the page and rolled so mellifluously off the tongue.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2018
And of course there’s that mellifluously catchy vocal hook, reworked from Mtume’s original by the then-unknown R&B group Total.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2018
Those who were there on Wednesday were rewarded with a lively and often lovely program around the theme “U.K. meets U.S.,” symbolic of the new relationship unfolding mellifluously onstage.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2017
He chuckled mellifluously with resonant disdain and authority.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
