lovely
Usage
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Something or someone that is lovely is attractive in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. That which is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower.
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A full-page illustration from a 13th-century manuscript is resplendent with lovely reds, greens and blues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
His wife, Linda, is equally neighborly, hosting regular chat sessions on their lovely front porch and checking in on me whenever I have been ill, as she does to anyone in her orbit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
One imagines Mike Rogers has enjoyed a lovely Michigan summer.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Marcona almonds are lovely if you want an amusing high-low dialogue with the potato chips that appear later, though any salted roasted almond will do.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Just you four? Or is the lovely Mrs. Callahan busy parking the Mercedes?”
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Fanny and Stella, middle-class lovelies in hoop skirts, engage in a warm embrace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
Persimmons, grapefruit, kumquats and perhaps the most delectable and elusive of all the mandarins: the tiny, seedless kishus — all of these little lovelies thrive in our climate.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2023
Cool, dark conditions, like those found in an unheated basement, a garage or a shed, will lull your lovelies into dormancy and hold them there in relative suspended animation.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2021
Hey my lovelies it’s with great disappointment that I willl not be performing this weekend @bbcstrictly due to testing positive with Covid 19.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2021
"Welcome, my lovelies; I am Rose Bertain, House Orléans, and Royal Beauty Minister to our great kingdom. I have a message from Her Majesty."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Less than two miles away, at the Wallace Collection, we find its pendant, the even lovelier “The Rainbow Landscape.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Barrymore also previously interviewed Armstrong on her US daytime TV show, The Drew Barrymore Show, saying the 12-year-old "could not have been lovelier".
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023
“She couldn’t have been lovelier and more generous,” Johnson said, adding that Lansbury was perfect for the scene in every way except one: “Not a gamer,” he explained.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
I was nervous, and she couldn't have been lovelier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
She was wearing the new blue wool dress for the first time, with a snowy white collar and deep cuffs, and she had never looked lovelier.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
Each rendering is a wager against oblivion, and Mr. Armitage’s is the loveliest wager of the lot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Finn’s hyperactive sense of smell and bottomless appetite provide lighthearted comic relief, while the descriptions of Chase running are some of the book’s loveliest passages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
She added, "The devastating loss of a child is beyond measure and this one was one of the loveliest there are."
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
“It’s just the loveliest thought, isn’t it, that they live on and exist within us,” says Al-Shamahi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
Sky showered Beauty with gifts of his loveliest objects—the sun, the moon, the clouds, the stars.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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