Affectedly dainty or refined.
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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 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!"
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