单词 | sadly-pleasing |
释义 | > as lemmassadly-pleasing Prefixed to adjectives forming compounds with the sense ‘—— in a sad manner’, as sadly-pleasing, sadly-sweet, etc. ΚΠ 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 532 A sadly pleasing Thought. 1713 A. Pope Ode Musick 1 In a sadly-pleasing Strain Let the warbling Lute complain. 1816 W. Wordsworth Thanksgiving Ode 44 To..utter England's name with sadly-plausive voice. 1974 Sat. Night (Toronto) May 24/1 There is something sadly comic about modern Canadian historicism. 1996 Sunday Star-Times (Auckland) (Nexis) 22 Sept. (Entertainment section) 12 A sadly-sweet story about three daughters growing up in a small American town. < as lemmas |
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