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desirably

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de·sir·a·ble  (d-zr-bl)
adj.
1. Worth having or seeking, as by being useful, advantageous, or pleasing: a desirable job in the film industry; a home computer with many desirable features.
2. Worth doing or achieving; advisable: a desirable reform; a desirable outcome.
3. Arousing desire, especially sexual desire.
n.
A desirable person or thing.
de·sira·bili·ty, de·sira·ble·ness n.
de·sira·bly adv.
Translations
desirably [dɪˈzaɪərəblɪ] ADV desirably located → con una situación ideal
desirably
adv located → reizvoll; equipped, furnished → attraktiv; male, sexy, feminine → begehrenswert


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Some of his occupations wrought less desirably upon him.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The rooms were too large for her to move in with ease: whatever she touched she expected to injure, and she crept about in constant terror of something or other; often retreating towards her own chamber to cry; and the little girl who was spoken of in the drawing-room when she left it at night as seeming so desirably sensible of her peculiar good fortune, ended every day's sorrows by sobbing herself to sleep.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
Instinctively she wss impelled to hold off, to make him woo her, to make herself more desirably valuable ere she yielded.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
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