sightly
Americanadjective
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pleasing or attractive to see
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providing a pleasant view
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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
The requisite exoskeleton that now envelops the stadium somehow makes it less sightly.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 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
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 Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
There ain't a sightlier place in the world for a house.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
Restored at once to manhood, they appear’d More vig’rous far, and sightlier than before.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
Yes, sir, it's about the sightliest view I know of.
From The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
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 Marietta Holley
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 Robert Kerr
It's near about the sightliest place I ever see.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
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 William Dean Howells
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