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SENSUOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensuously mean? 

SENSUOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb SENSUOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. with aesthetic gratification or delightplay

  Familiarity information: SENSUOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SENSUOUSLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

With aesthetic gratification or delight

Context example:

sensuously delighting in the wine and food

Pertainym:

sensuous (taking delight in beauty)


 Context examples 


She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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