Definition of "pleasingly" [pleasingly]

• In a pleasing manner; agreeably; favourably. (adverb)

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• "America leads the world in obesity, and while you might prefer the term pleasingly plump, that extra weight is overtaxing your heart and joints, hardening your arteries and inviting diabetes."
• "The archaic sense of meat = food in general makes the term pleasingly redundant, and I don't think it suggests a plant-free diet as carnivore does."
• "Dear Frank, he writes, In view of Hooting Yard's present, thoroughly understandable, preoccupation with slobbering, now may be the right time to recall a pleasingly Keyesque passage in Virginia Woolf's"