(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.
Twee
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course, the great British countryside was never as twee as that – a point made forcibly by the second album from mysterious electronic collective Hacker Farm .
(2) By the time her debut album proper came out, nu rave had melted into the witchouse hipster scene and Charli turned her attentions to darkwave electro-pop: but her image and sound turned out to be too twee for the leftfield crowd and too postmodern for the pop scene.
(3) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
(4) I used to avoid watching Bake Off, thinking it twee, but I was scratching around for a new interest as this series rolled around – having started a mammoth stint off the booze.
(5) is the clifftop of bare acceptability beyond which tweeting like a child tips into the rolling, sticky spume of gormless, cuff-clenching twee.
(6) And as for the healthy eating campaign , given that half the food sold in the US appears to be fashioned purely from E numbers and polystyrene, that's not a twee first lady hobby, that's humanitarian crisis work.
(7) "Only Britain," said Burns (another Aussie), "could make rape sound twee."
(8) It starts with these lines: When a language dies The divine things stars, sun and moon the human things thinking and feeling are no longer reflected in that mirror The poem is a little twee, granted, but the message couldn't be truer.
(9) Ti Va Zadou is a twee little guesthouse with four cosy bedrooms a five-minute walk from the little beach next to the port.
(10) The website is a curious affair – a sort of doggy dating site riddled with twee canine puns from “how to create a pawesome profile” to a section devoted to “waggy tales”.
(11) Their hearts won’t be wrenched asunder by baking tragedy, encapsulated by a lingering shot of some lumpy petits fours and ultimately soothed by plinky lullaby music and incidental twee.
(12) It's kind of a luxury rent-controlled ghetto for lawyers and barristers, and there is a beautiful tailors, a fine chapel, established by the Knights Templar (from which the compound takes its name), a twee cottage designed by Sir Christopher Wren and a rose garden; which I never promised you.
(13) Much has been made of millennials and our distain for the big, in favor of the small, the organic, the handcrafted, the twee, the old-time-y.
(14) Chic but not twee, the hotel is 30 minutes from Porto, close to the grandly be-churched town of Penafiel.
(15) Among the many twee exhibits at the museum are over 500 2D and 3D images of Santa, a mock storybook village depicting Christmas fairytales and Toyland Train Mountain, a three-tier, 30ft wide electric train set that encircles a tree decorated with over 3,000 festive ornaments.
(16) From the twee Match.com adverts featuring hipster-style couples to the cocktails served in jam jars at the trendy incomer bar the Albert in EastEnders, “the idea of the hipster has been swallowed up by the mainstream”, says Sanderson.
(17) "When I first saw Paro on YouTube I thought it was very twee," says Jepson, as she prepares to give me a demonstration.
(18) Only from the 1870s did Austen's critical fortunes revive, courtesy of a saccharine biography by her dull nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, and the twee chocolate-box illustrations of the Macmillan edition of her novels.
(19) The front, for example, is a twee, unnecessary Nigel Waymouth photo of Drake the Homely Folkie sitting moon-faced and dozy-eyed pouring over a Spanish guitar and fronted by a pair of “bumper”-styled brothel-creepers.
(20) For years, I had stupidly dismissed her books because of their rather twee jacket covers featuring blotches of paint and bucolic countryside scenes.