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Definition of Mincingly
1. Adverb. In a mincing manner. "She stepped mincingly over the puddles"
Definition of Mincingly
1. adv. In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.
Definition of Mincingly
1. Adverb. In a mincing way; affectedly, with excessive delicacy. ¹
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Definition of Mincingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mincingly
Literary usage of Mincingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... TO SHAKE THE SHOULDERS IX WALK- ixo ; walk mincingly or conceitedly ; abo move
the body or shoulders thus in dancing (hence the name of the dance above) ..."
2. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"... ti mince one's words, to speak mincingly; I!. ®-^cit, (w.)/. affectedness,
ie, affectation. ... mincingly ..."
3. The Lusiad: An Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, Thomas Moore Musgrave (1826)
"... purple juice Fill'd to the brim, by Phaeton's swarthy race Freely were
quaff'd ;—not mincingly declin'd.— Partaking cheerfully the lib'ral feast, ..."
4. Bleak House by Charles Dickens (1853)
"she said mincingly. " I imagine so. And here is Conversation Kenge. With his
documents ! How docs your honorable worship do? ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1856)
"Gifford was not the relish for simplicity and genuine mincingly of the iniquities
and stu- the other—that they have lost all we, at the present day, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(9) To eat mincingly, or squeamishly. PICKLE-HERRING. A merry-andrew. PICKLING.
... (4) To eat mincingly or daintily. PIE. (1) A receptacle for rape-seed. ..."
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