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delight in
verb as in take pleasure from
Example Sentences
Australia pushed in the dying seconds but Tom Wright's knock-on sealed an Irish win and had Farrell roaring with delight in the coaches' box.
The IDF may have gone the Puritans one better in Gaza, but there's no minimizing Harvard's founders' delight in their genocidal assaults on Indigenous peoples, which they modeled explicitly on biblical Israelites' attacks, as I detailed in the Salon essay referenced above.
He also argued, trollishly, that anti-abortion doctors had standing to challenge mifepristone’s approval because they “delight in working with their unborn patients—and experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted.”
Even if you were not that child who took his toys apart to see how they were made — and there is much ingenuity just in the construction of a plastic “Star Wars” X-wing fighter — there is a vicarious delight in watching it done, especially if you weren’t the sort who could ever put things back together.
Experienced cooks will delight in the new combinations in Garcia and Andréa Lawson Gray’s 288-page book, which was beautifully photographed by John Troxell.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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