daintily

Definition of Daintily in English :

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Adverb

1. daintily

in a refined manner

Example Sentences:
'she nibbled daintily at her cake'

2. daintily

in a delicate manner

Example Sentences:
'the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Daintily

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adjective -tier or -tiest

1.

delicate or elegant

a dainty teacup

2.

pleasing to the taste; choice; delicious

a dainty morsel

3.

refined, esp excessively genteel; fastidious

noun plural -ties

4.

a choice piece of food, esp a small cake or sweet; delicacy

Daintily

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nounWord forms: plural ˈdainties

1.

a choice food; delicacy

adjectiveWord forms: ˈdaintier or ˈdaintiest

2.

delicious and choice

a dainty morsel

3.

delicately pretty or lovely

4.

a.

of or showing delicate and refined taste; fastidious

b.

overly or affectedly fastidious; squeamish

Daintily

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adj. dain·ti·er, dain·ti·est

1. Delicately beautiful or charming and usually small: dainty slippers.

2. Delicious; tasty: a dainty dish.

3. Fastidious or finicky: "They chided [them] for being too dainty to eat army rations" (Stephen Berry).

4. Frail in constitution or health: "Such heroines have [been]replaced by the dainty young thing who faints away at the sight of a six-shooter" (Molly Gloss).

n. pl. dain·ties

Something delicious; a delicacy.

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