Adorably
very attractive or delightful; charming:
What an adorable hat!
worthy of being .
Contemporary Examples
In true, adorably awkward JLaw fashion, she tripped on her own dress while ascending the steps to accept the award.
The Juvenile Oscars Marlow Stern February 24, 2013
Stamos plays a suave dentist dating the adorably neurotic Emma (Jayma Mays), much to the consternation of Will (Matthew Morrison).
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adorably mortified, Hanks said his mother wanted to slap his mouth for his four-lettering transgression.
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It began with Pharrell adorably lurking in the forest of giant Oscar statues while singing the first verse.
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Historical Examples
“Well, I have already told you that I am his very humble servant,” said Coconnas, turning about in an adorably impudent fashion.
Marguerite de Valois Alexandre Dumas
He now perceived that the creature was not only young but most adorably feminine.
The Creators May Sinclair
There are some adorably fine horses, and there are acres of glass houses used to grow fruits that we throw in Italy to the pigs.
A House-Party Ouida
She was the personification of caprice, adorably constructed, and constructed to be adored.
Eden Edgar Saltus
She had no mind—girls of this sort never have—but she was adorably pretty, which, to most men, is much better.
The Hypocrite Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
She is adorably capricious, and her style of beauty wears well.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honore de Balzac
adjective
very attractive; charming; lovable
(rare) deserving or eliciting adoration
adj.
1610s, from French adorable, from Latin adorabilis “worthy of worship,” from adorare (see adore). Weakened sense of “delightful, charming” is recorded from 1710. Related: Adorably; adorableness.
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