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Loaded with fast-drying archival ink, the Sakura’s Pigma Micron fineliners are simply a delight to work with.

As the biggest snowstorm in the region in two years, it brought delight to snow lovers and proved not to be a huge inconvenience.

To me, love for food should be about the appreciation of subtlety, not a delight in savagery.

Particularly during the colder months, I love employing this method to turn tough cuts of meat into silken morsels of pure delight.

Despite that it leans a bit toward wordiness and could have used maybe one less caper, “The Big Tow” is a true delight – but not for the reasons you might think.

His surprise marriage to theater director Sophie Hunter may have broken hearts, but the squeals of delight were even louder.

Then they sat down at the dinner table and ate with delight.

One gets the impression that God would take great delight in letting them go.

But I also want jazz to be loved and enjoyed, to serve as a source of enchantment and delight.

Our brains and bodies delight in the sweet stuff, in the same way we might respond to a drug, causing us to want more and more.

He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.

Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.

Louis listened with pleasure, and dwelt with delight on the interesting Princess and her son.

It was her delight to mingle politics and chivalric devotion, in their long conferences.

The morning we started was one of those perfect autumnal days when it is a delight simply to live.

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On this page you'll find 185 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to delight, such as: contentment, glee, joy, pleasure, satisfaction, and delectation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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