refreshingly
English
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From refreshing + -ly.
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Adverb
refreshingly (comparative more refreshingly, superlative most refreshingly)
- In a refreshing manner.
- a refreshingly original film in which the villain defeated the hero
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 57:
- The trade wind blows refreshingly cool across the Point, clearing it of mosquitoes and singing an eternal psalm in the fronds of the coconut palms.
- 1993 May 21, Janet Maslin, “From 'Rambo' to Rodham, Smirking All the Way”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 September 2020, retrieved 22 April 2014:
- Notwithstanding that episode, this film is refreshingly low on scatological gags and other gross-out humor, preferring all-purpose bad jokes to bathroom ones.
- 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
- In a refreshingly honest introduction, it recognised that the hardest part of any strategy is making it happen.