Definitions
affectedly dainty or refined
Used in a sentence
“"Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition.”
“After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade.”
“My father, León Fuertes, was a fag three years; a roaring faggot; a lisping, smirking fruit; […] He put on all the trappings of inversion: the twittered mouthings, the hyper-feminine moues, the languid mincings.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Walking daintily”7 letters
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