pleasing
adjective
pleasingly
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a word derived from
pleasing.
Example Sentences
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The Italian feature is a droll, Coen brothers-style exercise in deadpan absurdity, with a zigzag plot that caroms off a pleasingly demented cast of oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The mixture of digitally warped instrumentation that emphasizes its artificiality and cinematic string arrangements that evoke the melodrama of old Hollywood is pleasingly jarring and disorienting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Clash's Robin Murray gave the record eight out of 10, hailing it as "pleasingly eclectic" and "frequently ambitious" in its style as A$AP raps over everything from trap beats to jazz piano.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
Snuffle and let that sense of curiosity and discovery waft pleasingly over your proboscis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Although Olmsted himself preferred the northernmost site, he insisted Jackson Park could work and “produce results of a pleasingly becoming character, such as have not hitherto been aimed at in World’s Fairs.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
