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delicately
[ del-i-kit-lee ]
adverb
- in a careful way:
They stepped delicately among the brambles and exposed rocks.
Aggressive removal of the tumor must be delicately balanced with the risk of injury to adjacent normal tissue.
- in a tactful or sensitive way:
Employee issues need to be managed delicately, with empathy and an open perspective.
- in a faint, subtle, quiet, or barely perceptible way:
Dessert was perfection: perfectly moist and delicately flavored ricotta and rhubarb cakes with a big dollop of creamy vanilla mascarpone.
The eye-catching Himalayan honeysuckle has pendant spikes of deep red bracts with white, delicately scented flowers and red-purple berries.
- showing or using precision or refinement:
The region is a famous center for embroidery and appliqué work, painted pottery, and delicately carved wooden doors.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of delicately1
Example Sentences
I’m also a fan of intentionally included frico, like small crisps interspersed throughout a delicately sauced pasta or a green salad that has crunchy bits of frico all throughout for texture, color and flavor.
“You see how this is black, and this is black,†she said, delicately pointing at the bird’s soiled feathers with a gloved finger.
Historians and biographers work around archival gaps to delicately stitch together suppressed histories, but fiction writers can take more creative liberties to reconcile the past.
Beautifully shot and delicately told, these stories would bring a lump to anyone's throat.
The lyric is pretty filthy, which you don’t necessarily catch because of how delicately D’Angelo is using his falsetto.
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