daintiness

Example Sentences

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Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a man not known for daintiness in the mud-wallows of politics, once ordered Bossie fired from a congressional staff for playing fast and loose with the truth.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020

After her debut, a Time magazine critic described her work as having “the daintiness of miniatures, the vivid reds and yellows of Mexican tradition and the playfully bloody fancy of an unsentimental child.”

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2018

The other cars’ designs revel too much in their own daintiness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2016

Participants were not asked about their expectations about the violence or daintiness of storms.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2014

It was this combination of daintiness and cultivated speech that misled Macon and invited him to regard her as merely foolish.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison