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Significats de dainty en anglès
portuguès
guloseima català
exquisitat espanyol
dainty Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.
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Examples for "prim"
Examples for "prim"
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He saw Mzu, her small figure unmistakable in its prim business suit.
2
The papers extended across the hall and into a prim, fleckless parlor.
3
The house does not look so prim as it used to do.
4
The small, prim, stylish mother looked quite regal in her aristocratic rage.
5
There was a noticeable stiffening of the prim figure of Mrs. Gaston.
1
The problem was, he'd never managed to master the perfect, mincing walk.
2
Beside the Bishop rode the Prior of Emmet upon a mincing palfrey.
3
One officer superintended the mincing, another exercised a general supervision over all.
4
He spoke with the clipped, mincing utterance of the typical Prussian officer.
5
There was a doubting, almost a resentful, tone in the mincing voice.
1
Some of the shops were just a bit twee, I must admit.
2
Think of it as positivity without the twee platitudes and motivational quotes.
3
Auckland's queen bees of twee-pop haven't played much around these parts lately.
4
There was always this air of twee artifice pushing in on everything.
5
With the twee, self-congratulatory filters it looked -well, twee and self-congratulatory
1
You're a brave lass for all your niminy-piminy lingo.
2
"Rawchester!" exclaimed Lady Montfort, "what, 'Niminy-Piminy'?"
3
"I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!"
Ús de dainty en anglès
1
Sweet and dainty were the damsels, alike in raiment and in face.
2
And a jade platter of dainty food calls for a million coins.
3
It ripples in dainty dance, or tumbles down in cascades of joy.
4
In the open doorway she shone, looking the smallest of dainty things.
5
He swung the dainty mite up in his arms and kissed her.
6
One was a dainty little magpie; the other a soft-eyed turtle dove.
7
Those dainty creatures were not in the least degree afraid of me.
8
They found the old nurse packing dainty white dresses in a trunk.
9
His free hand squeezed Mattie's fingers, warm and dainty beneath his own.
10
The water lapped with ceaseless, dainty caresses the sides of the boat.
11
In them, too, was greed for the toothsome dainty the boy carried.
12
The fair girl with the sweet face and dainty figure was silent.
13
Young people were crowding into the elevator, girls in dainty costumes predominating.
14
You are not rough; your hands are dainty as well as strong.
15
All the small table arrangements had the same dainty simplicity about them.
16
Shivering, Sugar takes a swig of tea from the absurdly dainty cup.
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