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  • noun Plural form of niceness.

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Examples

  • I heard a few Jewish chants and Unitarian nicenesses, too.

    It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011

  • Better than any other husband she had heard of, she concluded, as she remembered many of his earlier nicenesses and finenesses, and especially his eternal chant: NOTHING IS TOO GOOD

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • It is the little unexpected nicenesses which creep through the armour chinks, and suddenly her restraint shivered.

    The Fashion in Shrouds Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses.

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • Better than any other husband she had heard of, she concluded, as she remembered many of his earlier nicenesses and finenesses, and especially his eternal chant: NOTHING IS TOO GOOD

    Chapter 14 1913

  • I think it means that she – that young lady – had all the nicenesses of the French and all the goodnesses of the English.

    Our Little Canadian Cousin 1904

  • His appearance suggested all wires and indifference to the nicenesses of life.

    The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • And the heroine, nice, amiable, benevolent, and anxious to please and behave well, but hopelessly secondhand in her morals and nicenesses, and consequently without any real moral force now that the threat of hell has lost its terrors for her, is left destitute among the failures which are so puzzling to thoughtless people.

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • But on that evening Mrs Mackenzie was not able to speak to Margaret about her prospects, or to lecture her on the expediency of regarding the nicenesses of her dress in Sir John's presence, because of the two other cousins.

    Miss Mackenzie Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Nevertheless, it was not without compunction, some twang of feminine conscience, that Mrs Mackenzie gave up this opportunity of saying some last important word, and perhaps doing some last important little act with regard to those nicenesses of which she thought perhaps too much.

    Miss Mackenzie Anthony Trollope 1848

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