excellent
/ˈɛk.sə.lənt/ adjective A1- Having excelled, having surpassed.
- Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
- Exceptionally good of its kind. · Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.
- Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
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Well, well, you need not be downcast; for between ourselves I don’t think that either Inspector Mac or the excellent local practitioner has grasped the overwhelming importance of this incident.
“His father was an excellent man,” said Mrs.
“Do you know, my dear Villefort,” cried the Comte de Salvieux, “that is exactly what I myself said the other day at the Tuileries, when questioned by his majesty’s principal chamberlain touching the singularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daughter of an officer of the Duc de Condé; and I assure you he seemed fully to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differences was based upon sound and excellent principles.
Yet, though looked at with some curiosity and reserve by his more cultivated neighbours, he soon acquired a great popularity among the villagers, subscribing handsomely to all local objects, and attending their smoking concerts and other functions, where, having a remarkably rich tenor voice, he was always ready to oblige with an excellent song.
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