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

DRESDEN, Germany — In a display case at the German Hygiene Museum here is a pretty, blue glass bottle whose daintiness belies its purpose.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 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

Somewhere beneath all of that daintiness, chambered in all that neatness, lay the thing that clotted their dreams.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison