What's the difference between loveable and lovely?

Loveable


Definition:

  • (a.) See Lovable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more West Ham, who also saw a £31m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette rejected this week, are now expected to return with an improved offer for both players.
  • (2) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
  • (3) Otherwise we'd be stuck with guys like Rick Santorum or Dennis Kucinich, who were more ugly caricatures than loveable, sexy goofballs.
  • (4) Asked how the country perceived him, he spelled out "loveable rogue".
  • (5) He’s a gay actor who has made a career of playing loveable straight blokes and now he’s playing a confusingly straight gay guy who may be a bit of a dick.
  • (6) During those years, Cosby was starring in The Cosby Show as Cliff Huxtable, a loveable but silly family patriarch.
  • (7) He was a loveable revolutionary, with a taste for gentle self-mockery, even of his most serious beliefs - certainly one of Arnold Bennett's natural "cards".
  • (8) Ronnie Biggs said he would be remembered as Britain's "loveable rogue" as he made an appearance in public.
  • (9) Han Solo's swashbuckling loveable rogue of a nephew?
  • (10) It's that optimism that makes Kevin and Perry loveable."
  • (11) At one point in this first volume, Twain observes that man is loving and loveable to his own, but "otherwise the buzzing, busy, trivial enemy of his race – who tarries his little day, does his little dirt, commends himself to God, and then goes out into the darkness, to return no more, and send no messages back – selfish even in death".
  • (12) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more The Tottenham Hotspur forward netted 25 goals, to end the campaign one ahead of Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero and Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy.
  • (13) Meanwhile, Woody Allen continues to make movies, Bill Murray is a loveable but curmudgeonly old fella’ and Terry Richardson is a feted photographer.
  • (14) "Normally enjoy his punditry but come on, this Atletico team are far more loveable than Chelsea have ever been.
  • (15) What everyone should remember about the loveable Mr Schäuble is that he is a humble lawyer and politician who is obsessed by the German obsession with hyper-inflation.
  • (16) You have to make where you live loveable.” Rehman said Cameron has replied to his latest invitation, but this time to say his diary was full and “he will try to visit when there is a free spot”.
  • (17) But wanting the impossible may even support a deep sense of unworthiness ("If I were more loveable, she would be with me.")
  • (18) Naughty Dog, creator of the much-loved Uncharted series, and Media Molecule, the clever Guildford team behind the loveable LittleBigPlanet titles, are both working on major projects that will certainly show what next-gen consoles are capable of.
  • (19) For decades he has been hailed as the archetype of the Hollywood loveable rogue, but it turns out Star Wars’ Han Solo might be more of a scoundrel than even the most die-hard fans of the long-running space opera ever suspected.
  • (20) There's a whole generation of us who secretly think, wouldn't it be nice if the Beatles had not taken any drugs and were still loveable people in a Dick Lester film."

Lovely


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having such an appearance as excites, or is fitted to excite, love; beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner.
  • (superl.) Lovable; amiable; having qualities of any kind which excite, or are fitted to excite, love or friendship.
  • (superl.) Loving; tender.
  • (superl.) Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody.
  • (adv.) In a manner to please, or to excite love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (3) To many he was a rockstar, to me he was simply 'Dad', and I loved him hugely.
  • (4) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
  • (5) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (6) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
  • (7) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (8) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (9) "I loved being a man-woman," he says of the picture.
  • (10) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (11) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
  • (12) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (13) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
  • (14) Ultimately, both Geffen and Browne turned out to be correct: establishing the pattern for Zevon's career, the albums sold modestly but the critics loved them.
  • (15) Case histories Citing some or all of the following cases makes you look knowledgeable: * Wilson v Love (1896) established that a charge was a penalty if it did not relate to the true cost of an item.
  • (16) He loved that I had a politics degree and a Masters.
  • (17) The people who will lose are not the commercial interests, and people with particular vested interests, it’s the people who pay for us, people who love us, the 97% of people who use us each week, there are 46 million people who use us every day.” Hall refused to be drawn on what BBC services would be cut as a result of the funding deal which will result in at least a 10% real terms cut in the BBC’s funding.
  • (18) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (19) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
  • (20) The Commons will love it,” Chairman Jez Cor-Bao had said.

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