What's the difference between appetising and delicious?

Appetising


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While it might seem like a good idea to pick up several bags of salad when you spot the "buy one get one free" deal, your masses of salad won't look quite as appetising when it starts to go brown a few days later.
  • (2) Whereas modern politics is fronted by androids who talk in borderline riddles – “One nation”, “the big society” – Ukip’s thinking is presented in appetisingly straightforward terms.
  • (3) Social media malware and malvertising The huge number of people using social networks like Facebook is proving an appetising target for malware developers: BitDefender has already published its roundup of popular Facebook scams in 2014 , for example.
  • (4) They don’t look particularly appetising, but I’m in the company of true believers.
  • (5) "It makes them a bit more appetising and it covers the natural brown colour of the insects that might put people off," he added.
  • (6) In the second set of experiments, we studied the effect of ingesting either a high fat breakfast (65 g fat, 927 kcal) or a similar low fat breakfast (8-1 g fat, 418 kcal) on the consumption of a preselected appetising lunch in six healthy volunteers.
  • (7) In the first set of experiments, 300 ml beef consomme soup with or without 60 g margarine was fed to each of six volunteers, followed 20 minutes later by either a low fat solid meal or a preselected appetising meal.
  • (8) In this state they look far from appetising, but the catch marks a critical step forward in the battle to save the local fishing industry almost a year and a half after the meltdown at nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
  • (9) Currys and AO are singled out by Which?, the consumer group, which claims they may have broken government guidelines by inflating the “was” price to make promotions look more appetising.
  • (10) I’m not sure this sushi would ever have been great (in fact, with its crunchy rice, indifferent fish and lack of seasoning, it isn’t) but by the time it has rolled around in its cardboard container, deconstructing wildly, it’s more abstract artwork than appetiser.
  • (11) This amounts to an appetiser for all oil companies to come here and do more exploration, seismic and data," said Stendal, who is the head of the bureau's geology department.
  • (12) It wouldn’t in any case look very appetising suddenly regurgitating five years later, but the insight that lay behind it was sound.
  • (13) Though given only 90 minutes – almost an hour less than most theatrical Dreams – Davies has employed many of the special effects crew from his Doctor Who days and has appetisingly cast Maxine Peake as Titania and Matt Lucas as Bottom, with the 87-year-old Bernard Cribbins also among the rude mechanicals.
  • (14) Liverpool face Leeds United at Anfield in another appetising fixture.
  • (15) As an appetiser before helping to send the US government into famine mode, Ted Cruz railed against Obamacare on the Senate floor last month in a publicity-seeking speech that lasted more than 21 hours and included a Darth Vader impression and reading Dr Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham as a bedtime story for his daughters, who watched on TV.
  • (16) Politically monitored “truth” doesn’t look very appetising after a Brexit campaign where politicians were quite able to make up their own big lies without media assistance.
  • (17) Franklin has similar hopes for Solar, saying he is not at all worried that people might find a satire on climate science a less appetising prospect than a period romance.
  • (18) Multi-lane highways are, however, a difficult dish to make appetising.
  • (19) Their policies are like the diet of high fructose corn syrup that Tpers often favour – appetising, temporarily satisfying but ultimately a health hazard.
  • (20) It’s like following up an appetiser of sherbert and ice cream with a main course of salad with no dressing.

Delicious


Definition:

  • (a.) Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
  • (a.) Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (2) I like to think of Shakespeare as one delicious smorgasbord that I have a lifelong pleasure in eating.
  • (3) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
  • (4) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
  • (5) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
  • (6) Anything that good for you might be expected to smell foul and come in a medicine bottle, but the Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be delicious, except by those who hate olive oil.
  • (7) Also, the tacos are probably delicious, and undoubtedly more authentic than the hipster joint with the zigzag taco holders and $12 margaritas.
  • (8) 55 min: Maggio plays a delicious ball down the inside-right channel to release Di Natale in the box.
  • (9) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
  • (10) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
  • (11) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
  • (12) The video camera installation, with the clarity of the colours and the contrast between the scenes of winter and summer, is just delicious.
  • (13) Today, I’m more likely to look up a recipe by a celebrity chef and prepare a delicious family dinner while my wife fixes the lawnmower and unblocks a drain.
  • (14) Ryse offers high-octane spectacle – the quick-time kill moves are particularly delicious – but in terms of its gameplay, it's a little hit and miss.
  • (15) It’s as though you went out one warm evening – an evening fizzing with delicious potential – you went out for just one drink… and woke up two days later in a skip.
  • (16) Just email cook@theguardian.com with "get-togethers" in the subject line and tell us what you've got planned.For each get-together we feature, the host will receive a selection of delicious Hotel Chocolat chocolates.
  • (17) Owner Sergio has 15 artisanal beers on the menu every week and serves very generous G&Ts and delicious Aperol Spritz.
  • (18) The equaliser was slickly constructed, the ball shifted smartly from left to right at pace with home defenders lunging in but unable to intercept, before Mohamed Salah curled a delicious shot beyond Petr Cech.
  • (19) No, it has made it more delicious.” I, like the overwhelming majority of those who work in palliative care, am opposed to this bill – not on religious grounds, but out of concern for the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.
  • (20) So perhaps delicious Istria has been hiding in plain sight.

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