dainty
Definition of dainty:
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: adjective
Pleasing to the taste; delicious; delicate; effeminately beautiful; affectedly particular as to food.
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part of speech: adjective
Pleasant to the palate: delicate: fastidious.
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part of speech: noun
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part of speech: adverb
Daintily.
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Common misspellings:
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- daintly (5.3%)
- daitny (10.5%)
- danty (10.5%)
- danity (31.6%)
- dantiy (10.5%)
- daimyo (31.6%)
Usage examples for dainty:
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See their dainty little legs.
"The Insect Folk" – Margaret Warner Morley -
The ladies, of course, have the same easy method of showing a desire for silence and reflection in a country where nurses carrying infants usually smoke in the streets, and where a dainty confectioner's assistant places her cigarette between her lips in order to leave her hands free for the service of her customers.
"The Sowers" – Henry Seton Merriman -
They did dainty things about town, and they were charming while they were doing them.
"The Co-Citizens" – Corra Harris