dainty
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The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, a climate-focused investor alliance, used this dainty phrase when it relaunched this week without mentioning its original goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
The creature lifts its head, nearly dainty in scale, and contentedly gnaws a mouthful of ferns.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024
"We’re not planning on making it all dainty and quaint. We’re putting the pedal down."
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024
Foods like salad and Jell-O were seen as dainty and understood to be women's cuisine.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2024
“You’re a fool too. I remember how they talked. ‘Isn’t she a pretty little thing, so sweet, so dainty?’
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing dainty
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
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