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
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
Sometimes if it looks like a sightly so-so set of hurled-together elite teams and quacks like a sightly so-so set of hurled-together elite teams, well, you get the idea.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2017
Today, the sightly Emmanuel Episcopal Church, located on a bluff overlooking downtown, is situated where Fort Cumberland once stood.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2016
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
He could have gone on and found within five miles two or three sightlier, healthier spots.
From The Ivory Trail by Mundy, Talbot
He was a big man and a strong, the sightliest of men and a good skald; and when he was fully grown he fared between sundry lands, and was well accounted of wherever he came.
From The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by Morris, William
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
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
It's near about the sightliest place I ever see.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
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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