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dainty

[deyn-tee] / ˈdeɪn ti /




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This statue yassifies Trump, sucking out his buccal fat, virilizing his features, carefully excising all of the dainty feyness that, whether he likes it or not, is crucial to capturing the unique Trump disposition.

From Slate Jun. 2, 2026

"It's crazy as our websites are completely different. I sell sterling silver, dainty pieces and engagement jewellery," she said.

From BBC Oct. 10, 2025

Masks must be worn—not Covid-era mouth and nose coverings but more elaborate versions; if you don’t bring your own you will be provided with a dainty lace eye mask.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

Inside, dainty horse figurines painted in pastels peek out from nooks and crannies.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 26, 2025

She’s wearing black stockings although it’s summer, and sandals, although the sandals are not dainty women’s summer sandals, but thick- soled and artistic, with primitive peasant buckles.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

This interests me as a writer because sometimes these dainties appear unbidden, and you know you’re onto something.

From New York Times Jul. 31, 2019

The food will be catered by STK — a steak house — and among the dainties: octopus ceviche, beef tartare. foie gras mousse, beets and boucheron, and tuna apple crudo.

From Washington Times Apr. 22, 2015

Playing cards Writing love poetry Practising fencing moves In which work of fiction portraying the English aristocracy do crust-free cucumber dainties become the object of a lie?

From BBC May 16, 2012

The restaurants’ Mad Hatter Tea ramps up the traditional three tiers of dainties for Americans whose eyes are never bigger than their stomachs.

From New York Times Nov. 29, 2011

But indeed, we had no stomach for our Greek dainties, once he had delivered his bitter mouthful.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Botox is now injected behind the ears to tilt them forward, creating the illusion of a smaller, daintier face.

From BBC Apr. 22, 2025

The song “Firefly” starts off a little slower, a swoon-worthy saxophone partnered with a dainty piano and even daintier triangle.

From Washington Post Apr. 5, 2023

Then her mistress handed her off to her mother and began carting around her daintier public replacement, Bambi.

From Salon Nov. 17, 2021

Hawera is daintier, shorter and crowded with as many as seven small, pale yellow flowers to a stem.

From Seattle Times Oct. 6, 2021

Maybe Joanna was a bad girl but certainly she kept her baby sweeter and daintier than these good women kept theirs.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

The Bazaar also serves the country’s daintiest chicken wings, which are confited, deboned, pressed, fried and treated to a doll-size cube of blue cheese and a housemade hot sauce enriched with chicken jus.

From Washington Post Mar. 10, 2023

Adding an electric motor completely transforms the experience, making even the daintiest of parents feel superhuman.

From The Verge May 26, 2020

There’s a whole api family, and they are the daintiest little fruits imaginable – api noir, in deepest maroon, is easily mistaken at a distance for a plum.

From The Guardian Oct. 9, 2019

Jones doesn’t crack the slightest of smiles as she sings one of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s daintiest tunes, “Many a New Day”:

From The New Yorker Apr. 16, 2019

She had used her mother's daintiest china plates, and had scattered violets here and there over the cloth.

From The Mary Frances Cook Book Adventures Among the Kitchen People by Fryer, Jane Earye




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