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UK
/dˈeɪntɪnəs/
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NOUN
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the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance
the fineness of her features
the daintiness of her touch
How To Use daintiness In A Sentence
- She had a certain daintiness about her, too, in her way of dressing – even in the way she did her hair – and in her walk, which made the women say with certain resentment, that Mrs. Paine would like to be "dressy. Purple Springs
- “verdictive aesthetic judgments,” and let us call the other aesthetic judgments (of daintiness, dumpiness, elegance, delicacy etc) “substantive aesthetic judgments.” Aesthetic Judgment
- If the council's paternalistic tradition is one cause of this seemingly excessive moral daintiness, then so too are the city's religious leanings.
- The societies with which I have been acquainted have moved with a heaviness of gait that did nothing to prepare me for the intense daintiness of ballet.
- | Reply lmao @ Rex Hondo. well done the new Joker face/expression creeped me out to high hell. im not so sure about the clothes. even if the new face is awesome, ive always been a fan of the neat and tidy purple suit and cane that allows the joker to walk with a bit of daintiness (read: hidden insanity) EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A great new Joker shot
- I'm not a big person, mind you, but next to her daintiness I'm a clodhopper with elephantiasis.
- But it was a robustness in a finer than the wonted sense, a vigorous daintiness, it might be called, which gave an impression of virility with none of the womanly left out. Amateur Night
- Yes, he weighs 75 pounds, but he flicks his forefeet with a certain daintiness, bends what I guess are his wrists with a certain elegance. Dog days of autumn
- Scientific studies find that the four kinds of daintiness that human can perceive respectively consist in four representative foods: kelp, mushroom, bonito fish, and chicken soup.
- The towers were thin, delicate looking; the whole place had an air of daintiness and frailty to it.