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delicately

[del-i-kit-lee]

adverb

  1. in a careful way.

    They stepped delicately among the brambles and exposed rocks.

    Aggressive removal of the tumor must be delicately balanced with the risk of injury to adjacent normal tissue.

  2. in a tactful or sensitive way.

    Employee issues need to be managed delicately, with empathy and an open perspective.

  3. in a faint, subtle, quiet, or barely perceptible way.

    Dessert was perfection: perfectly moist and delicately flavored ricotta and rhubarb cakes with a big dollop of creamy vanilla mascarpone.

    The eye-catching Himalayan honeysuckle has pendant spikes of deep red bracts with white, delicately scented flowers and red-purple berries.

  4. showing or using precision or refinement.

    The region is a famous center for embroidery and appliqué work, painted pottery, and delicately carved wooden doors.



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Other Word Forms

  • hyperdelicately adverb
  • nondelicately adverb
  • quasi-delicately adverb
  • superdelicately adverb
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On the fur outside are "geometric patterns, meticulously, delicately and beautifully designed", Yonga says.

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So far, however, the White House has been handling the situation delicately.

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With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic pot.

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In recent interviews, including one published by Gallup last summer during the presidential campaign, he has delicately handled questions about Trump, opting instead to tout his belief in the unifying role of education.

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It had to be really really delicately handled because you're dealing with controversial material, but you're also threading a way through satire and horror and fear and real pain and just many, many things.

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