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The cheery 69-year-old father of eight sits in the center with his wife and delicately brandishes a small, brown book.

Then, as the car pulled away, he again began his slow movements with the girl delicately balanced on the hitching post.

PANKISI GORGE, Georgia—The mother of martyrs, a woman in her fifties, is delicately beautiful and visibly in pain.

This deft, delicately wrought story is Murakami at his best.

I just found it depressingly tone deaf for a show that typically handles these sensitive issues so delicately.

Portuguese snuff seemed to be in favor and was delicately perfumed.

He held the pin delicately between finger and thumb, and controlled her with his roguish eyes.

Here the tobacco plant attains its finest form and most delicately flavored leaves.

They that were fed delicately have died in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

Now here is a lady, well educated and delicately nurtured, who is destitute of the common necessaries of life.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to delicately, such as: beautifully, cautiously, deftly, elegantly, exquisitely, and finely.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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