Definition of "refreshingly"

The trade wind blows refreshingly cool across the Point, clearing it of mosquitoes and singing an eternal psalm in the fronds of the coconut palms.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 57

In a refreshingly honest introduction, it recognised that the hardest part of any strategy is making it happen.

2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76