nicely
see also: Nicely
Pronunciation
Nicely
Proper noun
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see also: Nicely
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈnʌɪsli/
nicely (comparative nicelier, superlative niceliest)
- (obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully. [16th-18th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xii:
- He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xii:
- Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement. [from 17th c.]
- 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 580:
- An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 59:
- Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.
- 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 580:
- Pleasantly; satisfactorily. [from 18th c.]
- French: agréablement
- German: gut
- Spanish: espléndidamente, bien
Nicely
Proper noun
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