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  • verb Present participle of nice.

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Examples

  • My family and religious friends are nicing me to death.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Smokin hot and kickin butt. 2010

  • Was nicing reading your meme … thanks for participating … btw you got my name wrong.

    Meme « Salt and Pepper. 2006

  • In quoting things to show how little pic-nicing there was in the war I feel it opportune to mention a fresh shape in which danger now appeared, not only for the Infantry, but for others formerly immune in sheltered positions far behind the front.

    The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

  • When engaged in pleasure parties, either pic-nicing at the signal, or promenading in the evening on Mont Benon, or sitting tête-à-tête at

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • Wimbledon ever had, though perhaps this is scarcely to the taste of the average feminine visitor, who used to enjoy pic-nicing to the accompaniment of whizzing bullets, and does not appreciate the latter without the former.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Various

  • International Exhibition, which held a convention at Geneva, where everybody goes pic-nicing, for objects which, though chimerical, were distinctly economical, and free from any taint of petroleum.

    Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

  • Right now, however, some of Bush's bullshit (like that "religion of peace" tarp he threw over the Islam to overcompensate for his vigor in fighting Islamic terrorists) blends too easily into Obama's anti-American version of nicing up to Islam.

    New Paltz Journal II Malone Vandam 2010

  • While the grant may not turn North Fifth into Main Street Manayunk, the idea is that if you start nicing things up - planting trees, replacing obnoxious signage - people might start coming to the street just because it's pleasant to be there.

    The Clog 2010

  • While the grant may not turn North Fifth into Main Street Manayunk, the idea is that if you start nicing things up - planting trees, replacing obnoxious signage - people might start coming to the street just because it's pleasant to be there.

    unknown title 2009

  • While the grant may not turn North Fifth into Main Street Manayunk, the idea is that if you start nicing things up - planting trees, replacing obnoxious signage - people might start coming to the street just because it's pleasant to be there.

    The Clog 2009

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