mincing

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And presently--mincing, sidling, making futile leaps to get away, the boys on their backs standing clear above them in the short stirrups--a band of deer-like young thoroughbreds assembled, thirty feet or so from the barrier Then there was trouble.

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  1. adjective Affectedly refined or dainty.

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  • No word-mincing, no high-flying Harvard vernaculars, just plain words from just plain people. —  Latest Articles
  • Well written and thanks for not mincing your words. —  mayvelous
  • "I think she has some kind of an age complex," Catharina, clearly not a lady for mincing her words, continued. —  Sky Showbiz - Latest
  • None of that mincing, shrinking, "iie, yada, ecchi" bull-shit. —  Anime World Order Podcast
  • Here Johnson says that Andrew Sullivan is a giddy, mincing, gay, same-sex-having-homosexual who thinks "balls" (homosexual "code" for certain aspects of the male genitalia, if you are not "hip" to such "lingo") are "fun," which is very, very clever, as it implies that Andrew Sullivan -- —  Firedoglake
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/ˈmɪnsɪŋ/
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