dainty
adjective
of delicate beauty; exquisite.
daintiness
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a word derived from
dainty.
Example Sentences
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Under Rouvali, the second movement was intimate and sober, but it gradually relaxed, even to a charming daintiness; the third, never rushing the eager rhythms, reached elegance.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a man not known for daintiness in the mud-wallows of politics, once ordered Bossie fired from a congressional staff for playing fast and loose with the truth.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
After her debut, a Time magazine critic described her work as having “the daintiness of miniatures, the vivid reds and yellows of Mexican tradition and the playfully bloody fancy of an unsentimental child.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2018
The other cars’ designs revel too much in their own daintiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2016
Somewhere beneath all of that daintiness, chambered in all that neatness, lay the thing that clotted their dreams.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
