1Extremely beautiful and, typically, delicate.

1. 1.1Intensely felt.
   ‘the most exquisite kind of agony’
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   • ‘These sorts of wounds are sharp, quick, and part of the game's exquisite agonies.’
   • ‘It's a form of exquisite torture watching George and Martha torment each other, and occasionally this becomes tiresome.’
   • ‘It's like tapping a spoon on a bad tooth, exquisite agony.’
   • ‘Where was the pain of probing the pressure points, the exquisite agony of muscular crystals breaking up under relentless fingers?’
   • ‘It was an illuminating moment of exquisite agony still vivid these many years later.’
   • ‘I could empathise with the exquisite torture of figuring out your place in the world.’
   • ‘Nights of research, practicing accents, roles and dances, were exquisite torture.’
   • ‘And it must be the most exquisite torture to be a centrist who is also a patriot.’
   • ‘It is an endearing trait, for it encapsulates the exquisite torture endured by so many football fans at this time of year.’
   • ‘I still remember the exquisite agony of my first ice cream headache - no one had warned me not to inhale a chocolate milkshake.’
   • ‘We know envy as a state of exquisite tension, torment and ill-will, provoked by an overwhelming sense of inferiority, impotence and worthlessness.’
   • ‘But in practice the prohibition means exquisite torture for the fighting men and women who crave and deserve a stiff drink at day's end.’
   • ‘It drew on sociological studies from several countries that describe confinement under sentence of death as exquisite psychological torture.’
   • ‘The spring rain that she had worshipped before now trickled down the back of her neck like the most exquisite torture.’
   • ‘My heart was simultaneously full of exquisite joy and unbearable sadness.’
   • ‘They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the exquisite torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game.’
   • ‘She found it exquisite torture to have to hold still, to remain kneeling, but somehow she managed.’
   • ‘The last eight years working with her had been, to say the least, the most exquisite type of torture.’
   • ‘And you wonder, lucid in exquisite agony, how this child will ever be born without tearing you in two,’
   • ‘The agony is not quite as exquisite as it has been in the past.’
   Sinónimos

   intense, acute, keen, piercing, sharp, severe, racking, excruciating, agonizing, harrowing, torturous, tormenting, searing

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2. 1.2Highly sensitive or discriminating.
   ‘her exquisite taste in painting’
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   • ‘Soprano Juliane Banse's fruity voice is neither childish nor stereotypically innocent, but her diction and sensitivity to words are exquisite.’
   • ‘The exquisite sensitivity of the nose can be defeated by a common cold.’
   • ‘Happily, the technology is now doing its job, collecting data methodically and with exquisite sensitivity.’
   • ‘The nervous system is thus specialized skin that has been internalized to preserve its exquisite sensitivity and responsiveness.’
   • ‘Musically, the film is epic yet nuanced, and evidences an exquisite sensitivity to detail.’
   • ‘His exquisite sensitivity to the difficulties faced by employers never failed him.’
   • ‘In nearly five decades of concert going this writer has rarely heard more exquisite, sensitively projected Chopin.’
   • ‘The exquisite taste in clothing of the Indian upper class is in sharp contradistinction to its complete indifference to the external appearance of houses and streets.’
   • ‘I'd like to think that I'm a man of exquisite taste.’
   • ‘They have exquisite taste in home furnishings.’
   • ‘Its high-ceilinged rooms, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, are decorated and furnished with exquisite taste.’
   • ‘A catalogue of unparalleled scope and exquisite taste accompanied the exhibit.’
   • ‘Clearly, however, he is a man of exquisite taste and judgement.’
   • ‘My hostess was a woman dressed in exquisite taste, friendly but politely distant.’
   • ‘She had exquisite taste and a flawless grasp of the Court's Byzantine code of conduct.’
   • ‘How could someone so morally degenerate have such exquisite taste?’
   • ‘He had exquisite taste in literature, but curiously enough these wonderful books didn't sell.’
   • ‘Sirk's is a popular cinema fashioned with exquisite taste during what we now know as the twilight of Hollywood's self-enclosed grandeur.’
   • ‘Not only did she touch my heart with her sincere and charming correspondence, I was impressed with her exquisite taste and her very modest requests.’
   • ‘His exquisite taste and critical attitude has resulted in a collection in the finest imaginable condition.’
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   discriminating, discerning, sensitive, selective, fastidious

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A man who is affectedly concerned with his clothes and appearance; a dandy.