daintily

Example Sentences

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McDonald’s has been the object of social-media derision since a Feb. 3 video of its CEO nibbling daintily at the chain’s latest offering, the multilayer Big Arch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

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.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

At one point, she daintily wraps a piece of tulle ribbon around a raw fish carcass.

From Salon • May 16, 2023

Another, purple with a splash of white and fuchsia flowers that flows daintily across the bodice.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

She was drinking her lemonade through a straw, daintily like a girl, trying to make the sweet pleasure last.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez