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 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!"
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.
6 A thirtysomething couple arrive, looking prim and professional and only faintly tipsy.
7 She was lovely to look at, but in a way half prim .
8 It had sounded so natural, not prim , not coy, and typically Rhineland.
9 It could be called neither neat nor prim , but it was voluptuous.
10 His round, fresh-coloured face maintained its habitual expression of rather prim gravity.
11 Her prim boast and pride was that she was a strict disciplinarian.
12 Desire's eye rested again upon the little girl with the prim mouth.
13 She is getting prim and Bettyish, and needs stirring up a bit.
14 She always seemed so prim and proper, but looks could be deceptive.
15 Her wit, her effervescence, her whimsicalities amused even the prim Miss Frances.
16 These were all children, prim children with tidy hair and solemn faces.
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