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Meanings of dainty in inglés
portugués
guloseima catalán
exquisitat español
dainty Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.
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Sinónimos
Examples for "nice"
Examples for "nice"
1
I don't mean 'nice' the way she means 'nice,' either; don't worry.
2
Conditions should be similar to yesterday and it's really nice, good ground.
3
Anyhow, the New Russians were soon given a nice present by Yeltsin.
4
Claudio was nice, available, honest, and did the work right on time.
5
It has been really nice the kind words that come my way.
1
Listen, none of us is 'zactly squeamish -know what I mean?
2
The intimate footage has both shocked and fascinated the squeamish American public.
3
Hence, even the most squeamish should be able to enjoy the game.
4
If you're squeamish, we could just avoid the room with the body.
5
She wasn't particularly squeamish, but wasn't interested in watching a dissection, either.
1
I heard paper rustle, then Dew continued in his prissy, high voice.
2
So thanks for your prissy little reminder but I already paid, right?
3
When he spoke, he sounded truly prissy, enunciating vowels for utmost effect.
4
The approach is latter-day Jane Austen, but prissy and without the style.
5
A prissy looking listing agent was waiting, tapping his watch in admonition.
1
Like everything else in the marquis's domain, the Dedicates' Keep was overnice.
2
What was she trying to say with her dark hints and overnice scruples of a Puritan conscience?
3
We are not overnice, Nicolo.
4
Don't be overnice in your exactions; if she is even a fairly good cook, waitress, and laundress, you are indeed blessed among women.
Usage of dainty in inglés
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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Dainty through the time
Dainty across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common