tastefully
advEtymology From tasteful + -ly.
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In a tasteful manner.
- He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- Passenger saloons are tastefully furnished with wood veneer and partitions, mottled grey Vyanide walls, pale primrose ceilings and grey floor.1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79:
- Related terms
- distastefully, tastily