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Word entry · 7 letters

mincing

Best crossword clue

"Walking daintily"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted cgiimnnStarts with MEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
1M2I3N4C5I6N7G

Definitions

  1. 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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