Affectedly dainty or refined.
Lovely or loveable because it is small and pretty.
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Examples for "dainty"
Examples for "dainty"
1Sweet and dainty were the damsels, alike in raiment and in face.
2And a jade platter of dainty food calls for a million coins.
3It ripples in dainty dance, or tumbles down in cascades of joy.
4In the open doorway she shone, looking the smallest of dainty things.
5He swung the dainty mite up in his arms and kissed her.
1He saw Mzu, her small figure unmistakable in its prim business suit.
2The papers extended across the hall and into a prim, fleckless parlor.
3The house does not look so prim as it used to do.
4The small, prim, stylish mother looked quite regal in her aristocratic rage.
5There was a noticeable stiffening of the prim figure of Mrs. Gaston.
1The problem was, he'd never managed to master the perfect, mincing walk.
2Beside the Bishop rode the Prior of Emmet upon a mincing palfrey.
3One officer superintended the mincing, another exercised a general supervision over all.
4He spoke with the clipped, mincing utterance of the typical Prussian officer.
5There was a doubting, almost a resentful, tone in the mincing voice.
1You'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!"
1Some of the shops were just a bit twee, I must admit.
2Think of it as positivity without the twee platitudes and motivational quotes.
3Auckland's queen bees of twee-pop haven't played much around these parts lately.
4There was always this air of twee artifice pushing in on everything.
5With the twee, self-congratulatory filters it looked -well, twee and self-congratulatory
6You either think she's a quiet genius or a sickeningly twee menace.
7Without the twee, self-congratulatory filters, it looked like a photo of garbage.
8Some will find his boyish voice twee; his songs too tender.
9It can appear twee and cliched and almost unbelievably Pebble Mill.
10Plus Overlooks a river Minus The arched window frames are twee
11It seems that the twee did inherit the Earth after all.
12By 1976, the Rollers were twee and trite, yesterday's teen icons.
13Take two symbols of America: the twee clapboard house and the Wal-Mart style hangar.
14The approach is occasionally twee but rarely less than comprehensive.
15When restaurants dial up the twee they tend to dial down the food ambition.
16Sure, The Gathering is in itself slightly cynical and twee.