sightly
Americanadjective
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pleasing or attractive to see
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providing a pleasant view
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Origin of sightly
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Relative to the S&P 500, the large banks’ P/E is only sightly below its 10-year average, but it is well below KBW’s longer-term average of 69%, cited above.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
“I’d still probably give sightly better than even odds of 2024 being warmer,” Hausfather said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
For full-year 2022, the California-based company sightly raised its forecast for adjusted earnings per share to between $6.35 to $6.75 from a previous view of $6.20 to $6.70.
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2022
Ten minutes in Alan, once of Red Bull Salzburg, scored the opener with a header from a corner, to sightly empty cheers.
From The Guardian ● May 26, 2017
Viwe was a sightly but shy girl who stayed close to her mother’s hip as she gave me a quick hug.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
As one of the sightlier parts of Northern California, with its majestic oaks and gaudy colors, Napa has some of the highest real estate prices in America and some of its most expensive hotel rooms.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2020
Manhattan holds no sightlier, more in- telligent playfulness than theirs.
From Time Magazine Archive
There ain't a sightlier place in the world for a house.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean
Restored at once to manhood, they appear’d More vig’rous far, and sightlier than before.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
It did seem as if airmen, who must be brimming like full cups with wine of romance and imagination, ought to have invented sightlier houses for their beloved machines.
From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
It's near about the sightliest place I ever see.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
I keep it in the sightliest place, where the eye of man can fall on it at first.
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Holley, Marietta
One of the sightliest of these was situated on a little hillock, about half a mile from the sea, which we ascended.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Kerr, Robert
It's one of the sightliest places in the country, and here's the very spot "--he covered it with his huge forefinger--"where my father found that paint, more than forty--years--ago.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean
Yes, sir, it's about the sightliest view I know of.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean
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