Well-pleased

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Highly gratified or satisfied. not-comparable

    "“I also,” said the Tin Woodman, “am well pleased with my new heart; and, really, that was the only thing I wished in all the world.”"

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"Astylus expressed himself well-pleased with what Daphnis presented to him, and pending the arrival of his father, he engaged in hare hunting, as became a young man of wealth who merely visited the country for a change of amusement."

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