dainty

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

Inside, dainty horse figurines painted in pastels peek out from nooks and crannies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

With dainty sprouts peaking up through rich soil beds and the overflowing pots of fresh herbs, this season is a delight.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

Alice turned and walked back to the cluster of stalls, her gait dainty and contrived, as though a misguided person had taught her how to walk “like a lady.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

The food will be catered by STK — a steak house — and among the dainties: octopus ceviche, beef tartare. foie gras mousse, beets and boucheron, and tuna apple crudo.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2015

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

They were sipping their favourite drinks, and nibbling at their favourite dainties, and their fears were forgotten.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Botox is now injected behind the ears to tilt them forward, creating the illusion of a smaller, daintier face.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

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

Hawera is daintier, shorter and crowded with as many as seven small, pale yellow flowers to a stem.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 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

There’s a whole api family, and they are the daintiest little fruits imaginable – api noir, in deepest maroon, is easily mistaken at a distance for a plum.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

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

She was a good deal changed from the Judy who had been the prettiest, daintiest girl in Wilts five or six years before.

From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley