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Delighted


Definition:

  • (a.) Endowed with delight.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Delight

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
  • (2) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
  • (3) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
  • (4) Going forward, I am delighted to take on the roles of both director and ambassador for the club.
  • (5) "I'm delighted we've been able to agree a deal with Sporting Lisbon and with Ricky and we look forward to welcoming him to the squad in July, once all of the paperwork gets sorted out."
  • (6) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
  • (7) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
  • (8) "I am delighted we have achieved this result," Key said.
  • (9) His institute has also calculated the centre of the continent of Europe to be in Lithuania, much to the delight of the village of Purnuškės.
  • (10) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
  • (11) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (12) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (13) He seemed delighted to see everyone, he agreed with everything that was said to him, he was all benignity and good fellowship."
  • (14) And I’m delighted that Tony Hall has signalled that high-quality British drama is a major editorial priority for him, one he plans to invest in.
  • (15) Lord Roberts, a Liberal Democrat peer, told the Observer he was delighted Muazu was back in the UK but horrified that he had been forced to endure the attempted removal.
  • (16) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
  • (17) Mr Gates's publishers will have been delighted by the response he provoked.
  • (18) Luzhkov's many enemies, meanwhile, today expressed delight at the dismissal.
  • (19) Last week, I was delighted to meet four of these highly committed, talented recruits, together with their supervising consultant social workers from Newham, east London.
  • (20) The same-sex marriage bill became law, greeted with delight by the gay community and suspicious resentment by many Tories.

Fain


Definition:

  • (a.) Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
  • (a.) Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
  • (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
  • (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (1991) Invest Opthalmol Vis Sci 32: 1619-1629; Fain GL, Farahbakhsh (1989) J Physiol (Lond) 417: 83-103] and human lens epithelium [Cooper K et al.
  • (2) The new species is most similar to Tinaminyssus melloi (Castro) 1948 and T. turturi (Fain) 1962, but differs in (1) possessing only 5 pairs of ventral opisthosomal setae, (2) presence of 3 pairs of enlarged setae on the dorsal opisthosoma at the posterolateral margin of the podosomal plate (1 pair) and at the lateral margins of the opisthosomal plate (2 pairs), (3) elongate shape and larger size of the poststigmatic plates, and (4) chaetotaxy and solenidiotaxy of the legs, especially tarsus I with a cluster of 4 solenida and 1 club-shaped solenidion on the apex of the dorsum.
  • (3) The species is a Palearctic representative of the evolutive line nanula Fain and digitata Fain.
  • (4) and Nycteriglyphites pennsylvanicus Fain, Lukoschus & Whitaker were the only additional mites collected from E. fuscus; both of these mites have previously been collected from bats or their guano but are recorded here from Alabama for the first time.
  • (5) He instead turns up halfway through hungover, and finds himself delighting in the spectacle: “He would fain have fled, but a horrible fascination held him back.” The tragedy of Operation Sovereign Borders is that it descends even further from this awful scene.
  • (6) The fainly well-defined clinico-pathological features of these tumors allow them to be classed as a specific clinico-pathological variety of ductal breast carcinoma.
  • (7) The most commonly collected arthropods from M. pennsylvanicus were the fur mite, Listrophorus mexicanus Fain (approximately 2,720 specimens); the tropical rat mite, Ornithonyssus bacoti (Hirst) (987); the laelapid mites, Laelaps kochi Oudemans (733) and Androlaelaps fahrenholzi (Berlese (322); the sucking louse, Hoplopleura acanthopus (Burmeister) (121); the tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (47); and the chigger mite, Neotrombicula whartoni (Ewing) (45).
  • (8) 260, 7850-7856); the other one, which we have purified (Lin, S.-H., and Fain, J.N.
  • (9) Redescription of the genus Grandiellina Fain is given.
  • (10) The host-parasite relationships and affinities of the species of Sternostoma from the host family Tyrannidae are briefly discussed and Sternostoma callithrix Fain and Aitken is reduced as a synonym of Sternostoma longisetosa Hyland on the basis of their existing descriptions.
  • (11) Poikilorchis Fain and Vandepitte, 1957) have been reported in retroauricular cysts or abscesses in residents of West Africa and Southeast Asia.
  • (12) Previous genetic analyses of chromosome 17 markers and NF1 (Fain et al.
  • (13) A retrospective analysis was carried out of 142 cases of craniofacial traumas divided into 5 types according to the Fain classification.
  • (14) The interviewer, Jon Faine, pressed Abbott on the fact that students would soon be enrolling in university under one system and would then face higher fees in future years of the same course.
  • (15) The new species is most similar to Sternostoma hedonophilum Fain but differs in the absence of enlarged punctate areas around the stigmata, 5 additional pairs of seta on dorsal opisthosoma (Z and R series), absence of gnathosomal and capitular setae, and slight differences in the leg chaetotaxy with al1 and pl1 on tarsi II, III, and IV very long and whip-like and slight differences in the solenidia on and adjacent to the sensorial area of tarsus I.
  • (16) New host records include Ophthalmophagus striatus (Crossley) 1952 from Columbigallina passerina, Boydaia clarki Fain 1963 from Callipepla squamata, Boydaia falconis Fain 1956 from Falco sparverius, and Boydaia tyrannus Ford 1959 from Myiarchus cinerascens.
  • (17) The high affinity (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase purified from rat liver plasma membrane (Lin, S.-H., and Fain, J. N. (1984) J. Biol.
  • (18) In birds of the order Ralliformes inhabiting the southwestern part of the Caspian Sea there were found four species of mites of the family Rhinonyssidae, parasites of the nasal cavity: Sternostoma fulicae Fain et Bafort and Rallinyssus caudistigmus Strandtmann in Fulica atra L., R. caspicus sp.
  • (19) In the introduction to Curiosa Mathematica, Part II, he wrote that fixing one's mind on mathematics as one lay in bed could ward off "unholy thoughts, which torture with their hateful presence, the fancy that would fain be pure".
  • (20) Approval to operate an e-money service in Ireland would allow Facebook to operate across Europe using “passporting” rules, which allow digital payments to be used across EU member states without having to fain regulatory approval from each country.