Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a mincing, affected, or cautious way; sparingly; with affectation or reserve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
mincing way;affectedly , with excessivedelicacy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a mincing manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you've been hired because you are young and pretty, because you are mincingly camp, because you've ticked a particular ethnic box and then you are no longer young and pretty or the fashions have moved on and you suddenly don't have a job – get over it.
Former Countryfile presenter fronts ITV investigation into ageism on TV 2011
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These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.
Chapter 1 2010
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This unusual posture again excited suspicion, and the animal sidled mincingly away.
To Build a Fire 2010
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This unusual posture again excited suspicion, and the animal sidled mincingly away.
To Build A Fire 2010
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This unusual posture again excited suspicion, and the animal sidled mincingly away.
To Build A Fire 2010
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The bill came due in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War; patriotic German paintings from the time show manly Prussian troopers upsetting "mincingly delicate furniture."
Hidden Treasure Henrik Bering 2011
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In a moment of mincingly understated candour Fred Hiltz admitted that this might “create some tension”:
Diocese of Niagara in competition with New Westminster « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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In a moment of mincingly understated candour Fred Hiltz admitted that this might “create some tension”:
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I mincingly and carefully stepped to the door, took a deep breath, gave myself some extra chest support with my right arm, and ran as fast as I could to the other end of the bedroom where the towels were laying in a pile on the floor.
The Further Naked Adventures of airforcewife - SpouseBUZZ 2007
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Then the insolence — the confidence — [as Betty mincingly told me, that one said; you may easily guess who] that she, who was so justly in disgrace for downright rebellion, should pretend to prescribe to the whole family! —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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