exquisitely

English

Etymology tree

English exquisite

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English exquisitely

From exquisite + -ly.

exquisitely (comparative more exquisitely, superlative most exquisitely)

In an exquisite manner.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 527:
  Over the fish-dish — something sole-like, exquisitely seethed in a strange sauce, garnished with roots and fruits of the country — Tommy became sentimental.
- 2008, Lloyd Mardis, chapter 39, in Beneath the Mirror (Samantha King Mystery Series; 1), Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 204:
  She came running through the crowd dodging the cell-phoned heads, exquisitely attired as usual, probably the result of a recent shopping excursion at Fendi’s.
Exceedingly; in the highest degree.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 282–283:
  There was something exquisitely painful in the memories that crowded upon his mind: a thousand of Constance's daily acts of affection rose before him: neyer till this moment had he felt them unrequited; but now they were remembered like a reproach.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/2/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:
  They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.

in an exquisite manner