desirably

adv

desirably

adv

UK /dɪˈzaɪ(j)əɹəbli/

Etymology From desire + -ably.

1

in a manner likely to arouse desire

  • How much funkiness makes a pinot taste desirably complex, and how much more really is too much? Is a pinot good if it does not taste more like fruit than stones?2004, John Winthrop Haeger, North American Pinot Noir, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 150:
  • The men were princely dressed in pin striped suits, fedora hats and broad toe shoes with patterned vamps. I had only seen these desirably dressed men as moving watercolor images in Velvet Rose magazines.2020, Veronica Purcell, The Fourth Zaldizko (Seriphyn Knight Chronicles; book 2), Katarr Kanticles Press, page 7:

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