(superl.) Of trifling moment; nimportant; trivial.
(superl.) Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy; fastidious in small matters.
(superl.) Delicate; refined; dainty; pure.
(superl.) Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions; distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment.
(superl.) Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.
(superl.) Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a nice party; a nice excursion; a nice person; a nice day; a nice sauce, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be nice if it was more ... but I am trying."
(2) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(3) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
(4) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(5) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(6) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
(7) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(8) I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely, of Dayton, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
(9) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(10) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.
(11) McCall said the outlook remained uncertain: “The economic and operating environment remains uncertain, following the high levels of disruption and more recently the UK’s referendum decision to leave the EU, as well as the recent events in Turkey and Nice, which have affected consumer confidence.
(12) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
(13) Legal tax avoidance is something even nice people make decisions about every day.
(14) Nice says the change would be highly cost effective.
(15) Furthermore, the approach provides a nice graphical representation of the relationships between the PK-PD parameters and covariates.
(16) They turned out to be very nice and greatly appreciative of my efforts despite their own grave situation as I’ve since learned is generally the case.
(17) It is so sad, we don’t let her go out even if the weather is nice,” he says.
(18) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(19) Romney contends the president is a nice guy who has failed to make things better.
(20) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
Sweetheart
Definition:
(n.) A lover of mistress.
Example Sentences:
(1) The European commission is investigating “sweetheart” tax deals between the Irish state and Apple, and last month Brussels provisionally found that the iPhone maker’s tax arrangements in Ireland were so generous as to amount to state aid .
(2) The son of a civil engineer, who lives in a rented apartment in a run-down district of Athens with his high-school sweetheart and two young children, Tsipras belongs to a generation untainted by power.
(3) Earlier this year, HMRC made a sweetheart deal with Google enabling the company to settle its 10-year tax liabilities with a payment of £130m, an effective rate of less than 3%.
(4) As a candidate he was accused of palling around with terrorists, cutting a sweetheart deal for his home, and following the lead of an anti-American preacher.
(5) I’m not sure what my 14–year–old, Catholic schoolgirl self would have thought if she’d been given a preview of the past week’s news, and the role her teenage sweetheart played in making it happen.
(6) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(7) Moreover, many non-doms prefer not to advertise they qualify for such sweetheart deals with HMRC.
(8) It's the kind of sweetheart deal you'd love to make with your own bank.
(9) So, sweetheart, thank you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hiddleston , meanwhile, went full humanitarian, closing with a story about a recent trip to South Sudan with the UN Children’s Fund and dedicating his prize to aid workers everywhere.
(10) The prime minister now has serious questions to answer after she stood at the despatch box and called suggestions of a sweetheart deal ‘alternative facts’,” he said.
(11) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
(12) Demirtaş’s wife Basak – his childhood sweetheart, also from a poor family – is a teacher, and to judge from the glossy portraits that a mass-circulation newspaper printed last year of the couple with their two daughters, there is little to distinguish this handsome, modern, white-toothed family from many around the world.
(13) "Oh my sweetheart one, I love you so much more and more.
(14) But movement doesn't mean childhood sweethearts are given the heave-ho as the young and upwardly mobile make their ways to cosmopolitan city centres or exotic destinations.
(15) Patriotic family man Mick is described as a "bloke's bloke" who is also a big softie and he and Linda were childhood sweethearts.
(16) The Labour leader pointed to what he described as a gulf between what the Tories expect from the wealthiest and from ordinary taxpayers, as he highlighted what have been labelled sweetheart tax deals .
(17) As she points out, Dave Hartnett, the former head of Revenue and Customs, eventually resigned following the revelation that he had agreed to a sweetheart deal for Goldman Sachs (the bank was excused interest charges amounting to some £10m).
(18) It’s another sweetheart deal for the owner.” Michnuk points toward Corktown businesses within eyeshot.
(19) Not back to New York where Meredith was doing her best to keep him out of trouble (Jim Hobart: “Is he on a bender, sweetheart?”).
(20) Kacey Musgraves tours the UK in October New sweethearts of the rodeo: the female country stars determined to break the mould MIRANDA LAMBERT It's arguable that the seeds for country's current crop of straight-shooting radical female voices were first planted in the unlikely environment of Nashville Star .