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delectable

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Definition extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • The cake is delicious, scrumptious and delectable.
delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • We transform farm-fresh ingredients into delectable dishes.
  • delectable = extremely pleasing
  • They were talking about Lord Lowborough and his delectable lady,
    Anne Bronte  --  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Making the hard way sweet and delectable.
    Shakespeare  --  King Richard II
  • She had the adorable habit of letting the pink tip of her tongue protrude from her full, delectable lips while she concentrated.
    Homer Hickam  --  October Sky
  • delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • I have a dry red from the Arbor, crisp and delectable.
    George R.R. Martin  --  A Game of Thrones
  • delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • How delectable it was to think of this baby, her baby, their baby.
    Khaled Hosseini  --  A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • After kola nuts had been presented and eaten, the people of the sky set before their guests the most delectable dishes Tortoise had even seen or dreamed of.
    Chinua Achebe  --  Things Fall Apart
  • delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • He liked to sit and lick the carpeting with lust, as if it had been larded with the most delectable gravy he had ever tasted.
    John Grogan  --  Marley & Me
  • delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • Better to abstain from the gardens of delectable delights than to be stuck planting them, dawn to dusk.
    Julia Alvarez  --  In the Time of the Butterflies
  • delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • In a forest looking for beechnuts and truffles and delectable roots, pushing leaves aside with my wonderful strong nose, searching and sniffing along the ground, smelling, smelling, smelling ....
    E. B. White  --  Charlotte's Web
  • delectable = extremely tasty (tasting good)
  • OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS
    Miguel de Cervantes  --  Don Quixote
  • delectable = very pleasing
  • What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight.
    Christopher Paolini  --  Brisingr
  • delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread.
    Daphne du Maurier  --  Rebecca
  • delectable = extremely pleasing — especially to the sense of taste or to the eye
  • The grass you are standing on, my dear little ones, is made of a new kind of soft, minty sugar that I've just invented! I call it swudge! Try a blade! Please do! It's delectable!
    Roald Dahl  --  Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
  • delectable = extremely pleasing
  • She was the delectable bait.
    Arundhati Roy  --  The God of Small Things
  • About Fifteen Minutes Away from home, we stopped for a private And I tasted in our last barrage of delectable a growing sense of dread.
    Ellen Hopkins  --  Burned
  • Each man got one delectable puff.
    Laura Hillenbrand  --  Unbroken
  • Gladys Grierson, one of the more delectable ornaments of the senior class, had been afflicted to a greater extent with Jean Louise's complaint.
    Harper Lee  --  Go Set a Watchman
  • As her pulse slowed almost to normal, Sa' imagined the delectable taste of moosemeat during the long winter months ahead.
    Velma Wallis  --  Two Old Women

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