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In a manner that is pleasing or picturesque in its natural simplicity.

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  • Adjective : his idyllic life in Tahiti
  • I can savor it better over coffee when everyone is idyllically quiet this afternoon.
  • It was Franklin who strung a high-tension line from a thundercloud to a green pasture in idyllically rural
  • He sets “The Sun Also Rises” in an idyllic — and idyllically rowdy — Europe with one foot still in the Middle Ages.
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