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mincing(adjective) Affectedly dainty or refined. Synonyms: dainty, niminy-piminy, prim, tweeUsage: And the prince, imagining that he was mimicking his wife, made a mincing curtsey at each word.
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mincing
(adjective) Affectedly dainty or refined.
Synonyms: dainty, niminy-piminy, prim, twee
Usage: And the prince, imagining that he was mimicking his wife, made a mincing curtsey at each word.
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Mincing:
Adjective:
(Of a man) affectedly dainty in manner or gait; effeminate.
"I don't have to go through the rest of my life with that mincing voice of yours"
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Daemon wrote:Usage: And the prince, imagining that he was mimicking his wife, made a mincing curtsey at each word. I can imagine mincing steps but a mincing curtsey requires a far more elastic imagination.  -
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(adjective) Affectedly dainty or refined.
Synonyms: dainty, niminy-piminy, prim, twee
Usage: And the prince, imagining that he was mimicking his wife, made a mincing curtsey at each word.
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Affectedly dainty or refined.
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