What's the difference between appetising and scrumptious?

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.

Scrumptious


Definition:

  • (a.) Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Binondo, the first Chinatown in the world boasts scrumptious Chinese food and great people.
  • (2) I don't actually like cake, but this is an exceptionally light, scrumptious rhubarb and orange confection, so I have no trouble at all eating it.
  • (3) It serves scrumptious homemade cakes, regional cheese and meats, and temperance cordials.
  • (4) For under five dollars I could buy myself six scrumptious hot dogs neatly nestled into their simple white bread buns, a single squiggly line of mustard adorning each one of their glistening skins.
  • (5) Instead of saying "scrumptious", when sampling Marge Simpson's chicken wings, Pynchon changes the line to "Yeah, Vi-licious!
  • (6) The scrumptious prospect of a few journalists going to jail and sharing cells with very large men whose favourite game is Mummies and Daddies hovered, unspoken, above the chamber.

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