Example Sentences

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In the Amazon, tapirs with droopy trunks and watery eyes step "mincingly" along riverbanks, and blue morpho butterflies the size of postcards careen "reckless and beautiful" through their camp.

From Salon • May 24, 2022

The men all play women at one point or another, sometimes mincingly.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2018

No pictures of sailboats and sunsets; in fact, no art at all, except for a single Paul Klee or Joan Miro postcard, mincingly placed behind a candle holder.

From Time Magazine Archive

Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled."

From Time Magazine Archive

Scott, objecting to a quarter of a mile in scorching heat, went mincingly.

From The Oyster by Peer