gingerliness

Example Sentences

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Sebald approaches this cozy English object with mock-solemn gingerliness, as if he were an anthropologist presenting one of his exhibits.

From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017

He failed to maintain the gingerliness essential for handstarting a plane motor.

From Time Magazine Archive

She made a pleasant mock of the amenities which passed between her mother and Glendenning, whose gingerliness in the acceptance of the old lady's condescension would, I confess, have been notably comical without this gloss.

From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean