amused
/əˈmjuːzd/ adjective A2- Pleasurably entertained. · The children chased one another in a circle in front of their amused parents.
- Displaying amusement. · There was an amused grin on his face.
- Enjoying humorous aspects of something. · He was very amused to note the disarray of his opponents.· He was very much amused by the lyrics.
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Gardiner, highly amused by the kind of family prejudice, to which he attributed her excessive commendation of her master, soon led again to the subject; and she dwelt with energy on his many merits, as they proceeded together up the great staircase.
She ate a hearty breakfast, and watched a wee Munchkin baby, who played with Toto and pulled his tail and crowed and laughed in a way that greatly amused Dorothy.
AN ASS, having put on the Lion’s skin, roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met in his wanderings.
“Or of wisdom, my dear baron—or of wisdom,” said Louis XVIII., laughing; “the greatest captains of antiquity amused themselves by casting pebbles into the ocean—see Plutarch’s life of Scipio Africanus.”
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