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  • But "request," he decides, is a word "too mincy & polite, I think, too officious & Britishy."

    A View of Life in Airport Hell 2008

  • He said the last few words in a little high, mincy voice.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • He said the last few words in a little high, mincy voice.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • Vandrich did a little number, crossing his legs, making mincy hand motions.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • "Re: 1641: Captain Colly gives all his answers with the 'Ah Look ...' preface, but it's a doughty Northern phlegmatic one, not a mincy Aussie one"

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • Duncan and especially the mincy Petrovitch are even worse; the former can't decide if she's playing Joan Collins or a Vulcan and ends up doing both (badly), and the latter is as campy as Ferrier but without the talent, and well, just ... weird.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • As an FSU follower, I would like to say, Tim Tebow showed some class patting mincy of FSU when he was down momentarily.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • As an FSU follower, I would like to say, Tim Tebow showed some class patting mincy of FSU when he was down momentarily.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • Lay fiege, incampM j by battery, fcale, and mincy Aflaulting; others from the wall defend With dart and javelin, ftones and fulphurous fire;

    The Works of the English Poets 1779

  • All stiff and mincy, and dropping curtseys every two minutes! "

    Marjorie's New Friend Carolyn Wells 1902

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