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exquisitely

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ex·qui·site  (kskw-zt, k-skwzt)
adj.
1. Characterized by intricate and beautiful design or execution: an exquisite chalice.
2. Of such beauty or delicacy as to arouse intense delight: an exquisite sunset. See Synonyms at delicate.
3. Excellent; flawless: plays the piano with exquisite technique.
4. Acutely perceptive or discriminating: "Blind dolphins have been known to survive in the wild, guided by exquisite acoustic images of their prey" (Kenneth Browser).
5. Intense; keen: suffered exquisite pain.
6. Obsolete Ingeniously devised or thought out.
n.
One who is excessively fastidious in dress, manners, or taste.

[Middle English exquisit, carefully chosen, from Latin exqustus, past participle of exqurere, to search out : ex-, ex- + quaerere, to seek.]

exqui·site·ly adv.
exqui·site·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.exquisitely - in a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"
Translations
exquisitely [ɛkˈskwɪzɪtlɪ] advexquisitamente
exquisitely [ɛksˈkwɪzɪtlɪ] exquisite advexquisit;
(carved) → kunstvoll;
(polite, sensitive) → äußerst


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He thought the city of the ancient Romans a little vulgar, finding distinction only in the decadence of the Empire; but the Rome of the Popes appealed to his sympathy, and in his chosen words, quite exquisitely, there appeared a rococo beauty.
The ceilings were composed of great arches that rose far above her head, and all the walls and floors were of polished marble exquisitely tinted in many colors.
Never had his gold been so golden, his azure so dazzlingly clear and deep as on this particular May morning; while his fancy simply ran riot in the marginal decorations of woodland and spinney, quaint embroidered flowers and copses full of exquisitely painted and wonderfully trained birds of song.
 
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