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Nice  (ns)
A city of southeast France on the Mediterranean Sea northeast of Cannes. Controlled by various royal houses after the 13th century, the city was finally ceded to France in 1860. It is the leading resort city of the French Riviera. Population: 348,000.

nice  (ns)
adj. nic·er, nic·est
1. Pleasing and agreeable in nature: had a nice time.
2. Having a pleasant or attractive appearance: a nice dress; a nice face.
3. Exhibiting courtesy and politeness: a nice gesture.
4. Of good character and reputation; respectable.
5. Overdelicate or fastidious; fussy.
6. Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle: a nice distinction; a nice sense of style.
7. Done with delicacy and skill: a nice bit of craft.
8. Used as an intensive with and: nice and warm.
9. Obsolete
a. Wanton; profligate: "For when mine hours/Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives/Of me for jests" (Shakespeare).
b. Affectedly modest; coy: "Ere . . . /The nice Morn on th' Indian steep,/From her cabin'd loop-hole peep" (John Milton).

[Middle English, foolish, from Old French, from Latin nescius, ignorant, from nescre, to be ignorant; see nescience.]

nicely adv.
niceness n.
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nicely [ˈnaɪslɪ] advamablemente;
(of health etc) → bien;
that will do nicely → perfecto
nicely [ˈnaɪslɪ] nice advagréablement; joliment; gentiment; subtilement;
that will do nicely → ce sera parfait
nicely [ˈnaɪslɪ] nice adv (= attractively) → hübsch (= politely); nett (= satisfactorily); gut;
that will do nicely nice → das reicht (vollauf)
nicely [ˈnaɪslɪ] advbene;
that will do nicely → andrà benissimo


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And how nicely can doggish lust beg for a piece of spirit, when a piece of flesh is denied it!
Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany color, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.
 
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