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sweet

/swit/ interjection C2
  1. Used as a positive response to good news or information. · They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!
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Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 67 · B2
And through the window came a wandering—perhaps a lost—odour—a delicate, sweet odour of lilac that fixed the broker for a moment immovable.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 20 · C1
To the society bud comes but one début; it stands alone sweet in her memory when her hair has whitened; but to Chandler each ten weeks brought a joy as keen, as thrilling, as new as the first had been.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 27 · C1
“A song and dance!” she said, in a deliberate sweet voice that seemed to clothe her words in a diaphanous garment of impalpable irony.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 36 · C1

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