"delight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

delight sustantivo

sustantivo + delight
Kolokacji: 3
Afternoon Delight • customer delight • Chocolate Delight
verbo + delight
Kolokacji: 13
take delight • express delight • find delight • give delight • feel delight • ...
adjetivo + delight
Kolokacji: 63
great delight • sheer delight • pure delight • Turkish Delight • obvious delight • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 18
(3) pure, utter, unalloyed
Kolokacji: 3
(6) childish, boyish, new
Kolokacji: 3
(7) real, genuine, true
Kolokacji: 3
(8) secret, unconcealed
Kolokacji: 2
(9) perverse, sensual
Kolokacji: 2
1. perverse delight = uparta radość perverse delight
  • I giggled, taking perverse delight in having gotten her high, and asked, "What's wonderful?"
  • She seemed to take a perverse delight in making him help her himself with whatever she wanted to study.
  • It was the biggest mess any of us had ever seen, and we took perverse delight in our handiwork.
  • Miami takes a perverse delight in being known as the new Casablanca, a city with an edge.
  • I don't want to come right out and ask them, or they will take perverse delight in teasing me to distraction about her.
  • The animal seemed to take a perverse delight in terrorizing him.
  • The thought of the chaos that would shortly result at such inexpert hands gave me a perverse delight.
  • She took a perverse delight in denying his existence, in turning you against him.
  • He took a perverse delight in doing so.
  • For a man who took perverse delight in the deaths of others, Carson couldn't stand the thought of his own.
2. sensual delight = zmysłowa radość sensual delight
(14) constant, endless
Kolokacji: 2
(15) fiendish, devilish
Kolokacji: 2
(16) surprised, astonished
Kolokacji: 2
(17) culinary, gastronomic
Kolokacji: 2
(18) sweet, rapturous, comic
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + delight
Kolokacji: 7
with delight • of delight • in delight • for delight • to the delight • ...

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