Definition of "takingly" [takingly]

• In a taking or attractive manner.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""The quality of the writing is breath-takingly high," Segal tells TV critics at Winter TV Press Tour 2011, convincing no one who'd just watched the clip from the show, about a Wall Street up-and-comer who decides to chuck it all and go live with his parents in retirement in Florida."
• "Kristin is an absolutely stunning, breath-takingly beautiful young woman."
• "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is often deliciously, pains-takingly slow (the plot being unfolded in the accumulation of clues), while Emma can seem a whirl of blunders and revelations."