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NICELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a nice way
Example:
a nicely painted house
Classified under:
Pertainym:
nice (pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance)
Context examples:
Now I must look at you, Fanny, said Edmund, with the kind smile of an affectionate brother, and tell you how I like you; and as well as I can judge by this light, you look very nicely indeed.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
So she thought a while; and at last remembered that there was a sack of fine meal bought at the last fair, and that if she sprinkled this over the floor it would suck up the ale nicely.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest, his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The mare soon after my entrance rose from her mat, and coming up close, after having nicely observed my hands and face, gave me a most contemptuous look; and turning to the horse, I heard the word Yahoo often repeated betwixt them; the meaning of which word I could not then comprehend, although it was the first I had learned to pronounce.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
On the third night after Brunton’s disappearance, the nurse, finding her patient sleeping nicely, had dropped into a nap in the armchair, when she woke in the early morning to find the bed empty, the window open, and no signs of the invalid.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They do very nicely.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And what we found is that the degree to which the amygdala was metabolically active, the degree to which it lit up on imaging – and we can quantify that – nicely predicted the risk of subsequent cardiovascular disease events, said Tawakol.
(Biological Link Found Between Stress, Heart Disease, VOA)
"Doing nicely, sir." And off went Jo, talking very fast, as she told all about the Hummels, in whom her mother had interested richer friends than they were.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Finally, you can plan home and property matters with the confidence things will move along nicely.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
How nicely you talk; I love to hear you.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
