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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Daintily.

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Examples

  • The daintly little cupcake of a girl at the ice cream stand spends her days training powerful, nervous thoroughbreds.

    St. Stephen, Martyr in Middleburg Dymphna 2009

  • The daintly little cupcake of a girl at the ice cream stand spends her days training powerful, nervous thoroughbreds.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Dymphna 2009

  • Demure and daintly, a Danish delight; blinded I was, all through the night.

    jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2007

  • His spaceling brought him daintly into the air bubble of their little haven, and Ron Donderevo sprang free.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • As to his mother, knowing her peculiar tastes, he gave her a glass of brandy and water, upon plea of illness, which she took with evident pleasure; but fearing to attract the attention of the smart people around her, sipped so daintly, that it was not half finished when the signal to return to the carriages sounded, and Howel hurried her off.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • Anne married John Warren, who was the youngest child, daintly bred by his parents.

    The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People

  • The Arab shepherds in abbas of dark magenta, the black Greek priests, the green of a pilgrim's turban, the veiled women smoking narghiles and daintly sipping sherbet, pink and yellow and white.

    The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

  • Solomon in his very Sunday best was not a patch to one of these daintly dressed figures ....

    From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

  • The little ones, daintly attired, danced, marched, and played games to their hearts 'content.

    Social News 1894

  • The little ones, daintly attired, danced, marched, and played games to their hearts 'content.

    The Woman's Era, Vol. 1, No. 2 1894

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