scrumptious
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Elsewhere we learn that, during the 1978 coup d’état, the hotel’s chefs “whipped up special dishes, turning tender steaks and scrumptious cakes into weapons of distraction.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
Mikel Kruger-Johnsen scooped in a scrumptious second, but the two goals the 19-year-old sandwiched were not so unstoppable.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
Narrated with wry verve by Elizabeth Sastre, the whole thing is as scrumptious as if it had been constructed of gingerbread.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Knowing that my baby’s first cry would reverberate through the world before noon was strange and scrumptious.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023
But just as a scrumptious tarte Philippe will cause the most dreadful tummy ache if eaten in excess, too much optimism can plunge one into the precarious state of mind known as “optoomuchism.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.