(n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
(n.) A term of fondness.
(n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
(superl.) Rare; valuable; costly.
(superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
(superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
(superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(2) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(3) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
(4) His dainty close control was beautiful and took him past both Pique and Puyol; then, from 10 yards, he deliberately poked the ball wide of Casillas with his right foot, and it came flush off the post.
(5) Ighalo clearly had the beating of Otamendi and Eliaquim Mangala, while Touré, playing in a midfield two alongside Fernandinho, had his ego pricked by a couple of dainty touches from José Manuel Jurado.
(6) Their denial fits perfectly with their support for free market economics, opposition to state intervention and hatred of all those latte-slurping, quinoa-munching liberals, with their arrogant manners and dainty hybrid cars, who presume to tell honest men and women how to live.
(7) From the outset, Arsenal had been the more sprightly and inventive, and that pattern continued when Cesc Fábregas clipped a dainty ball over the Spurs defence for Nasri to chase.
(8) Muamba dinked a deft reverse pass to Cattermole, who slipped a dainty ball behind the German defence in anticipation of a surge by Walcott.
(9) They are laughing at the dainty affectations of the Leawoof toffs.
(10) After a semi-final that saw platters of immaculate choux swans, jewel-coloured macaroons and dainty sponges put before the judges, the technical challenge – a stand of sweet fondant fancies, nestled, pink and delicious as if awaiting a party of angelic children – was a reminder that even a GBBO finalist still needs the guidance of Berry.
(11) Balotelli peeled off his marker to run on to it and then, from 10 yards, tried to lift a dainty lob over the advancing goalkeeper ... but it was the finish of a dilletante rather than a deadly striker and the ball dropped meekly wide.
(12) StickmanLA Life at the old soldiers' hotel In drama, seaside hotels are usually inhabited by retired colonels and majors in blazers, and dainty elderly ladies.
(13) From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness.
(14) In person she is dainty, almost exaggeratedly ladylike, and much more playfully ambivalent than the public debate about her book.
(15) On Friday, Johnson and Dan Hannan said that in all probability the number of foreigners coming here won’t fall I am not going to be over-dainty about mendacity.
(16) Perhaps now is the time to reach for altogether plainer tableware and glasses, for Kaj Frank bowls at one end of the price range, but more likely to Duralex tumblers at the other as we face a future of, as it were, porridge and tap water rather than the fine wines and dainty dishes it's hard not to associate with Waterford and Wedgwood.
(17) A mong the many strangers to personal daintiness in Game of Thrones is a character called Shagga son of Dolf.
(18) And it was a goal of impressive daintiness, to boot.
(19) 3.00am GMT Packers 21 - 49ers 21, 0:03 2nd quarter Kaepernick is a maniac - there is no dainty QB slide with him.
(20) Jason Puncheon did well to recycle the ball to Yohan Cabaye after Albion cleared a corner and the Frenchman floated a dainty cross over Dawson towards the back post.
Prim
Definition:
(n.) The privet.
(a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
(v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
(v. i.) To dress or act smartly.
Example Sentences:
(1) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(2) In Henley, he encountered with interest the bookshop-owning lesbians who had taken opium with Cocteau, and a prim, elderly lady who had, in her youth, urinated regularly upon pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis.
(3) The main factor, however, is presumably not primness or diffidence but the chart's timeframe.
(4) The looks were set off by dashing turbans, decorative headscarves, and prim chignons for the unveiled.
(5) So, with this profile of fragments it is possible to build a spanning tree (PRIM'S arborescent skeleton) and to place a priori on it, new structures with other properties to value their activity level in the designed field.
(6) Primidone (PRIM) is metabolized into phenobarbital (PB) and phenylethylmalonamide (PEMA).
(7) And in part, as Murray staggered about indiscriminately high-fiving at the end, there was a sense that this has also been something of a rather mannered love story, at its centre Murray and that prim, capricious, but in the end compliantly adorable Wimbledon crowd.
(8) Prim though its traditions may be, Wimbledon is right to defend them.
(9) The synthesis of a ditopic linear receptor 3 consisting of an azacrown ether moiety for binding prim.
(10) When Klitschko shook his head primly and said: "I'm very conservative.
(11) The MIC has been determined, using the following antibiotics: chloramphenicol, tetracycline HCL, ampicillin, doxycycline, rifampicin, cephazolin, carbenicillin, nifuratel, gentamicin, aminosidine, trimetho-prim-sulphamethoazole, nalidixic acid.
(12) She may find it more necessary, or even perhaps more shocking, for it makes our age seem prim and puritanical and half-witted by comparison, not to mention more parochial.
(13) Low concentrations of serum gamma-Globulins were found in Phb (P less than 0.001), Prim (P less than 0.001, Phen (P less than 0.001) treated patients.
(14) Bird, a 22-year-old graduate when filming began, played 16-year-old Will McKenzie, a prim public schoolboy hastily transferred to a suburban comprehensive after a collapse in his family's fortunes.
(15) At his behest, Third Man staff dress exclusively in yellow, black and a dash of white: men wear sharp suits and skinny ties, with three thin lines scratched, as if by an animal's claw, through the centre; the women's dresses are prim and Mondrian-inspired, with a frisson added by low-denier hosiery.
(16) I’m not a naturist, but our family is certainly not prim when it comes to nudity, and I have authored a guidebook about wild swimming .
(17) The report, by the BBC Trust, found that many viewers were fed up with the stranglehold of long-running dramas, such as Casualty and Waterloo Road , on the BBC1 evening schedules, but also felt that both BBC1 and BBC2 were too prim and middle-class in tone.
(18) The relationship between structural changes of the minor salivary glands with age was evaluated by morphometric analysis in twenty patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (prim.
(19) Monoclonal immunoglobulins (M Igl) were detected in the serum of 10 of 20 patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (prim.
(20) When the Arts Council cut funding to Compass, he extended his rogue’s gallery with a sulphurous Rochester in Fay Weldon’s adaptation of Jane Eyre , on tour and at the Playhouse, in a phantasmagorical production by Helena Kaut-Howson, with Alexandra Mathie as Jane (1993); and, back at the NT, as a magnificent, treacherous Leicester in Howard Davies ’ remarkable revival of Schiller’s Mary Stuart (1996) with Isabelle Huppert as a sensual Mary and Anna Massey a bitterly prim Elizabeth.