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Meanings of mincing in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "dainty"
Examples for "dainty"
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.
1
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
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!"
Usage of mincing in inglés
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.
6
There was no mincing and nibbling when it went to a meal.
7
Well, it was no use mincing the matter, I told her all.
8
He slowed down to an alert and mincing walk and then stopped.
9
Not only did he avoid mincing words, but he avoided wasting them.
10
It equally reprobates an ungainly rusticity, and a mincing, tripping, over-soft manner.
11
I tell you this plainly, without mincing matters, like an honest man.
12
Saw you ever such a mincing puss-in-boots since the Lord made you?
13
For no painted, mincing court dame could the dragon have been slain.
14
Lady Sophia approached with mincing steps, her nose wrinkled in a frown.
15
She was splitting hairs and mincing words, and that pissed me off.
16
His proclamation looks like real earnestness; no mincing the matter with the rebels.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Mincing through the time
Mincing across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common