The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
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Examples for "delicacy "
Examples for "delicacy "
1 Porteous said he would celebrate being home by having a local delicacy .
2 That suggested delicacy ; and yet her young body was strong and vital.
3 They understood at once the humour and the delicacy of the situation.
4 All the delicacy in him felt the agony of her outraged reserve.
5 A cold maiden blush gave her the sweetest delicacy in the world.
The property of an attractively thin person.
1 The other showed a middle-aged woman, almost beautiful in her ardent slightness .
2 But it was the very slightness of these bibelots that disorganised me.
3 The very slightness , vagueness, of the memory gave it an added poignancy.
4 The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of slightness .
5 With her slightness , her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
6 He examined her, seeming to measure the slightness of her frame.
7 You notice the slightness of the thumbs and of he two 'little' fingers.
8 I braced my slightness for the shock but there was none.
9 Height and length of limb give distinction; slightness gives grace; women are squat!
10 Without pausing to consider the slightness of this evidence, etc.'
11 And she felt acutely her slightness , her girlishness, and her need of his help.
12 He was a man everlastingly maddened by slightness and weakness.
13 But details asserted themselves: the too-sharpness of the nose, the too - slightness of the body.
14 It carried an air, despite the slightness of it.
15 One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-
16 The slightness of the cytolytic effect allows the egg to develop without treatment with hypertonic sea-water.
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