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Examples
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But "request," he decides, is a word "too mincy & polite, I think, too officious & Britishy."
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He said the last few words in a little high, mincy voice.
DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007
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He said the last few words in a little high, mincy voice.
DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007
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Vandrich did a little number, crossing his legs, making mincy hand motions.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
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"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"
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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.
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As an FSU follower, I would like to say, Tim Tebow showed some class patting mincy of FSU when he was down momentarily.
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As an FSU follower, I would like to say, Tim Tebow showed some class patting mincy of FSU when he was down momentarily.
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Lay fiege, incampM j by battery, fcale, and mincy Aflaulting; others from the wall defend With dart and javelin, ftones and fulphurous fire;
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All stiff and mincy, and dropping curtseys every two minutes! "
Marjorie's New Friend Carolyn Wells 1902
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