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BEAUTIFULLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a beautiful manner
Example:
her face was beautifully made up
Synonyms:
attractively; beautifully
Classified under:
Pertainym:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Context examples:
It fascinated him, and he grew suddenly fond of this subtle flesh of his that worked so beautifully and smoothly and delicately.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Suddenly I came upon a pasteboard placard, beautifully written, which was lying on the desk, and bore these words: “TAKE CARE OF HIM. HE BITES.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She rendered it beautifully, but I watched not her, but Wolf Larsen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Isabella and Emma both write beautifully,” said Mr. Woodhouse; “and always did. And so does poor Mrs. Weston”—with half a sigh and half a smile at her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The double line a little above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, was beautifully defined.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Had you seen her this morning, Mary, he continued, attending with such ineffable sweetness and patience to all the demands of her aunt's stupidity, working with her, and for her, her colour beautifully heightened as she leant over the work, then returning to her seat to finish a note which she was previously engaged in writing for that stupid woman's service, and all this with such unpretending gentleness, so much as if it were a matter of course that she was not to have a moment at her own command, her hair arranged as neatly as it always is, and one little curl falling forward as she wrote, which she now and then shook back, and in the midst of all this, still speaking at intervals to me, or listening, and as if she liked to listen, to what I said.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And he proposed further, that by employing spiders, the charge of dyeing silks should be wholly saved; whereof I was fully convinced, when he showed me a vast number of flies most beautifully coloured, wherewith he fed his spiders, assuring us that the webs would take a tincture from them; and as he had them of all hues, he hoped to fit everybody’s fancy, as soon as he could find proper food for the flies, of certain gums, oils, and other glutinous matter, to give a strength and consistence to the threads.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Venus will tour Sagittarius most of November, until November 25, and Sagittarius is a fire sign that blends beautifully with your sign.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Bird,” he said, “how beautifully you sing!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
