nicely

See also: Nicely

English

From nice +‎ -ly.

nicely (comparative nicelier or more nicely, superlative niceliest or most nicely)

(obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully. [16th–18th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].
Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement. [from 17th c.]
- 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 580:
  An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 59:
  Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.
Pleasantly; satisfactorily. [from 18th c.]

pleasantly