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daintily
adverb as in delicately
adverb as in gingerly
adverb as in gracefully
adverb as in lightly
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
On the second floor, women sat in front of vanity desks as make-up artists powdered their faces and daintily applied blush to the apples of their cheeks.
The creature daintily stepped into it, smiling shyly up at Jack as his grandfather walked over.
At one point, she daintily wraps a piece of tulle ribbon around a raw fish carcass.
As Napoleon strolled into the dining tent, his chef quickly fried up the eggs from his steward’s pocket and placed them daintily atop the general’s feast.
You see how Julie methodically, and with a hint of odd urgency, unpacks her luggage, and how Rosalind daintily removes a tablet from a pillbox.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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