Englishman, aided by a Scotch antiquary, are divertingly futile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Mortality] Reference

Our author finds Jeffrey Masson's "divertingly amateurish" style likely to broaden the audience for the animal-rights movement in a way that Peter Singer and Matthew Scully never could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to Swallow] Reference

Once you realize that the plot of Lost is essentially balderdash, an endless string of divertingly intriguing MacGuffins that don't really pay off, you focus on the characters and have fun playing with the mythology.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bradley: Time Slips Away for 24 and Lost in Very Different Finales] Reference

More seasonally, and more divertingly, Colin Dunn of Diageo recommends pouring a drop (mind the carpets) of 10-year-old Isle of Jura onto one of the mince pies you've snaffled, to add that extra little smoky cheekiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of Christmas] Reference

His approach is so divertingly amateurish, his logic so far from airtight, that we see no harm in letting him ramble on for just one more chapter — only to find we've turned the last page, and he has affected us by the simple decency of his example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nasty, Brutish, and Short] Reference

"How do you like my garden?" she asked divertingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sally of Missouri] Reference

This is the sort of fellow whose patronage is so divertingly insufferable.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners] Reference

An incident was divertingly related showing that there was still a strong feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Girls in a Flat] Reference

It's a little film trying to look big, and falling disastrously if divertingly short.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

They were soon to learn that the man was something more than divertingly contemptible.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference

As he usually appeared in a sack coat when off the stage, the length of his legs was divertingly emphasized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Bohemia] Reference

"All my life I've dreamed of something like this," he said, divertingly, with a gesture which included the yacht.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ragged Edge] Reference

Numerous as his speeches are, there is not one that is not characteristic --- and, to our taste, divertingly ludicrous. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of Montrose] Reference

One thing; two cables from Maxwell to the War Office have been repeated to us here; inadvertently we think; divertingly for sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2] Reference

Whether this pleased her or not no one can say, but in a letter to Mrs. Thistlethwayte she treated the incident divertingly enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Mary Wortley Montague]

Keble is, of course, named after the hymn-writer and divine; and Balliol, where C.S. C. played the wag so divertingly, after Balliol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914] Reference

Mrs. Charteris, of course, was different; but she, like the others, found me divertingly naive and, in consequence, petted and cosseted me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference

But even in its infancy, Moderne Barn offers diners some interesting dishes in an environment that is divertingly beautiful, comfortable and cutting-edge smart.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Persons of ton guffawed like ploughboys over the discomfiture of an old hunks thus divertingly stripped of his bride, all his betrothal gifts, and of the very clothes he wore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Certain Hour] Reference

His earnest adhesion to our principles leaves those who politely call us old women of both sexes in a foolish case, for nothing could be more divertingly absurd than so to classify Carlyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Testimony against scientific cruelty] Reference

American way, and imitated her ladyship’s accent very divertingly.) “And she has no pride,” I added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

Numerous as his speeches are, there is not one that is not characteristic — and, to our taste, divertingly ludicrous.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of Montrose] Reference

A divertingly pathetic appeal to other officers not to be too proud to associate with certain German Volunteer Colonels merely because they are also beershop-keepers.    From Wordnik.com.  [London, Saturday, October19,1861.] Reference

See now, dear Manuel, how divertingly you have described King Helmas 'hideous nose in your letter to King Helmas, and how trenchant is that paragraph about the scales of his mermaid wife -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Earth] Reference

The show’s 2 hours and 50 minutes pass divertingly and quickly enough, especially when the Olivier’s revolving stage is in full cycle, allowing you to see a whole world of nasty misbehavior taking place everywhere from palaces to back alleys.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Theater Journal: A Bloody, Yet Heartless “Revenger’s Tragedy” - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

The "mess in the middle," divertingly untangled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The "mess in the middle," divertingly untangled.] Reference

02:42 pm: The "mess in the middle," divertingly untangled. - 6 comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2008] Reference

Numerous as his speeches are, there is not one that is not characteristic -- and, to our taste, divertingly ludicrous. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of Montrose] Reference

So, leaving personal satire, he turns to other topics; relates divertingly the annoyances of a journey; the mosquitoes, the frogs which croaked all night (Sat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace] Reference

"Do you play chess?" she asked, divertingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Place of Honeymoons] Reference

80, led the BSO's final concert of the season: Bartók's divertingly unsettling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference

In his divertingly satirical "History of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790] Reference