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Delicious   /dɪlˈɪʃəs/   Listen
Delicious

adjective
1.
Greatly pleasing or entertaining.  Synonym: delightful.  "The comedy was delightful" , "A delicious joke"
2.
Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste.  Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy.
noun
1.
Variety of sweet eating apples.



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"Delicious" Quotes from Famous Books



... a political situation, add a rocky soil, and the western slope of a great water-shed, pour into a mould and garnish with laurel leaves. It will be found delicious! ...
— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge
... witnessed the meeting between Rex and Daisy at the fountain, and how tenderly he clasped her in his arms as they waltzed together in the mellow light, to the delicious strains of the "Blue Danube," and knowing Rex as well as he did, he knew for the first time in life Rex's ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... and he was more devoted to her. Why should he not enjoy the delicious pleasure of seeing her and listening to her? His life was neither gay nor happy; he felt perfectly sure of himself, and, as he knew her now, he was also sure of her—a brave and honest girl. Otherwise, how had she divined ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... finds means to throw his master into a cauldron of boiling water, and pretending that the cook's death resulted from an accident, he obtains the chief position in the kitchen himself. He then provides the convent with such delicious food that the monks give themselves up entirely to material enjoyment, and finally reach a condition of degeneracy from which recovery is almost impossible. Rush, however, is exposed in time to prevent absolute ruin, and ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman
... far, the most favourite place of resort, while our people there were melting some seal blubber. No Greenlander was ever fonder of train-oil than our friends here seemed to be. They relished the very skimmings of the kettle, and dregs of the casks; but a little of the pure stinking oil was a delicious feast, so eagerly desired, that I suppose it ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr


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