daintiness

Example Sentences

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Spellling — real name: Chrystia “Tia” Cabral — knows how to sing in delicate whispers, but her elocution can contradict that daintiness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022

Margot Robbie’s sheer florals were sweet but not cloying, with a steely color palette that toned down their daintiness.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2021

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

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