The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appreciative \Ap*pre"ci*a*tive\, a. Having or showing a just or ready appreciation or perception; as, an appreciative audience. -- Ap*pre"ci*a*tive*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In an appreciative manner.
WordNet
adv. with appreciation; in a grateful manner; "he accepted my offer appreciatively" [syn: gratefully] [ant: ungratefully, ungratefully]
Usage examples of "appreciatively".
Coming up to Alleluia, clustering around her, looking her over appreciatively.
The stopper popped open with a soft plop and Brett sniffed the brandy appreciatively before he poured a hefty draught into a silver cup.
Thereafter the food was appreciatively consumed, the few trans mensal exchanges wholly mundane and perfunctory, the bottle of Claret rapidly going and going and soon wholly gone.
Nibbling a rose petal, Quar watched appreciatively as Kaug poured the sweet, syrupy coffee into a fragile porcelain cup.
Raven Scarpetti was followed closely by three security guards who watched her walk appreciatively.
Demerest grunted appreciatively as he bit into a lobster-and-mushroom tartlet garnished with Parmesan cheese.
She sighed with relieved delight when a deep earthenware dish of Boeuf Bourguignon was placed before the Professor, and her nose wrinkled appreciatively at the delicious aroma of steak and pork and onions and the tang of the red wine in which they had been cooking for hours.
Standing back, Anna gazed appreciatively at the gown Dolley was wearing on this occasion.
She watched as appreciatively as the other Doms as naked torsos stretched and turned.
His feet sank into the fluffy flokati rug and he wriggled his toes appreciatively.
He stopped only when, seated on the messroom deck, his legs and tail a stable tripod, he took the cup of tea that Jane had poured him between his two claws, sipped appreciatively.
Yet he would point out to Milly appreciatively on their Sunday walks the acres of new building growing mushroomlike from the sandy soil, with the miles of tangled railroad tracks, the forest of smoking chimneys, and the ever widening canopy of black smoke.
Hamlin of Zerks looked appreciatively at the lovely woman in the corner who had the attention of her husband.
She set off briskly, sniffing appreciatively at the smell of freshly-baked bread as she passed the boulangerie in the Place de Bagatelle, and smiling to herself at the old men sitting outside a cafe enjoying their coffees and fines.
Then belched flame appreciatively and covered them all with a cloud of soot.