angelically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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The picture from this encounter says more about the person she was becoming than any angelically composed lap-sit Santa photo ever could.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 19, 2019
Cue the gospel-like “ooh” chorus from her back-up singers; they’re posed angelically behind her on fluffy, white cloud set pieces.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2019
I watched him agree, angelically pleasant, to make an El Guero panini split in two, half of it vegetarian, for a demanding woman and her sullen-seeming teenage daughter.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2017
If your daughter’s little friend plucked the glasses from the nightstand and crushed them in her bare hands while your daughter slept angelically nearby, I’d take up the parents’ replacement offer.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2012
When Polly smiled so angelically upon him, in spite of his ludicrous pose and appearance, he thought he might make one more trial of temporal existence.
From Polly's Business Venture by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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