Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a dainty manner.
- Fastidiously; delicately; with nice regard to what is pleasing, especially to the palate: as, to eat daintily.
- Ceremoniously; with nice or weak caution; weakly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
dainty manner,delicately .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a refined manner
- adverb in a delicate manner
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Examples
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The owner must purposely season everything daintily, which is why he includes packets of s&p but why?!
Downtown Lunch: Urban Lobster Shack | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2009
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Which is how I came to hear the familiar "StreetWise" call daintily belted out by an otherwise quiet, diminutive Hispanic woman on my daily morning walk.
Esther J. Cepeda: Women, Caucasians, Hispanics: The Changing Face of StreetWise 2009
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The owner must purposely season everything daintily, which is why he includes packets of s&p but why?!
Midtown Lunch 2009
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He says that military power in Afghanistan and Iraq has been used "daintily" and if that's the best the US can do, the taxpayers have been swindled.
Biden, Dodd, Richardson Rap Obama For Anti-Terror Speech 2009
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Whereas in the New Hebrides every form of art, except mat-braiding, is at once primitive and decadent, here any number of pretty things are made, such as daintily designed ear-sticks, bracelets, necklaces, etc.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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Looking gorgeous in black, the model, 35, stepped "daintily" out of a cab and flashed her undergarment, reports The Daily Star.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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Then the canopy of heaven became a mighty loom, wherein imperial purple and deep sea-green blended, wove, and interwove, with blazing woof and flashing warp, till the most delicate of tulles, fluorescent and bewildering, was daintily and airily shaken in the face of the astonished night.
CHAPTER 18 2010
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But Li Wan saw only the fingers, milk-white and shapely, tapering daintily to the rosy, jewel-like nails.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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Roy looked at the scones as though they might be deep-fried Mars bars, but eventually and daintily conceded to try one.
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We'd love to say we mused upon decades of connoisseurship as we daintily nibbled on a single chocolate, but in fact we just scoffed the lot in front of Coronation Street.
Buy of the day Kate Carter 2010
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