overdainty

I will concede that intellectually overdainty types, such as myself, don't even care for the term "enemy," no matter what the offense of those so designated or the degree of our own animosity toward them.

The One Man Enemy 2008

Though they are not without a certain exquisiteness, they seem overdainty and wastefully frail, excepting, possibly, the "Clover" and the

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914