dainty
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This statue yassifies Trump, sucking out his buccal fat, virilizing his features, carefully excising all of the dainty feyness that, whether he likes it or not, is crucial to capturing the unique Trump disposition.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, a climate-focused investor alliance, used this dainty phrase when it relaunched this week without mentioning its original goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Tofu has some real bulk, too — it's not a flimsy, dainty thing.
From Salon ● May 21, 2025
The creature lifts its head, nearly dainty in scale, and contentedly gnaws a mouthful of ferns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
“You’re a fool too. I remember how they talked. ‘Isn’t she a pretty little thing, so sweet, so dainty?’
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
This interests me as a writer because sometimes these dainties appear unbidden, and you know you’re onto something.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2019
Running mate Sen. Tim Kaine himself, in fact, appears at a private tasting in Manhattan featuring dainties from 15 fancy chefs and hosted by celebrity chef Katie Lee.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2016
Playing cards Writing love poetry Practising fencing moves In which work of fiction portraying the English aristocracy do crust-free cucumber dainties become the object of a lie?
From BBC ● May 16, 2012
The restaurants’ Mad Hatter Tea ramps up the traditional three tiers of dainties for Americans whose eyes are never bigger than their stomachs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2011
On the raft Calypso put food and drink in abundance, even a sack of the dainties Odysseus specially liked.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Botox is now injected behind the ears to tilt them forward, creating the illusion of a smaller, daintier face.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
By its nature, it’s nearly anonymous work, with stunt performers doubling for daintier stars.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
The song “Firefly” starts off a little slower, a swoon-worthy saxophone partnered with a dainty piano and even daintier triangle.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023
Then her mistress handed her off to her mother and began carting around her daintier public replacement, Bambi.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2021
Red oaks lead long lives, longer than our daintier friends black willows, persimmons, apples, and redbuds.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
The Bazaar also serves the country’s daintiest chicken wings, which are confited, deboned, pressed, fried and treated to a doll-size cube of blue cheese and a housemade hot sauce enriched with chicken jus.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
Adding an electric motor completely transforms the experience, making even the daintiest of parents feel superhuman.
From The Verge ● May 26, 2020
Jones doesn’t crack the slightest of smiles as she sings one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s daintiest tunes, “Many a New Day”:
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 16, 2019
It started with the electric guitar but moved to Moog synthesizers in the 70′s, godawful keytars in the 80′s, and to today’s daintiest of bikers, Daft Punk.
From Forbes ● May 29, 2015
They were Edward's when he was a baby—the daintiest embroidery and thread lace.
From The Literary Sense by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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