tastefully
English
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[edit]tastefully (comparative more tastefully, superlative most tastefully)
- In a tasteful manner.
- Antonym: untastefully
- Hypernyms: appropriately, properly; nicely, approvably
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it.
- 1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79:
- Passenger saloons are tastefully furnished with wood veneer and partitions, mottled grey Vyanide walls, pale primrose ceilings and grey floor.