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delighted

Speech parts

1. delighted - Adjective

2. delighted - Verb

4. delighted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Delight

Endowed with delight.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Francis Bacon

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestley

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. François Mitterrand

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. Herbert Butterfield

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves. Adam Smith

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