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mincing

[ UK /mˈɪnsɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪnsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. affectedly dainty or refined

How To Use mincing In A Sentence

  • Most of these milestones involve learning and honing a technical skill such as boning a chicken or mincing garlic with the back of a knife at a breakneck speed - a vital skill that I have yet to accomplish or making a certain dish or component of one. Archive 2008-07-01
  • He spent his early life courting disapproval, mincing down the corridors in front of the religious brothers to avoid conforming.
  • So does the big mincing machine: not onstage for long, but long enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • “For tear-free chopping, mincing, dicing, slicing—fear no onion,” reads the packaging for RSVP Onion Goggles shown, whose antifog lenses and foam seal are designed to protect your eyes from irritating onion vapors. Claim Check: Onion Goggles
  • Your gait takes on a personality instead of being a generic little mincing thing that diminishes you. Times, Sunday Times
  • Xisithrus says: someone’s talking like a mincing sodomite - = p5 = - interesting choice of words mr emiction. Think Progress » Pentagon Disinvites Anti-Muslim Evangelist From Prayer Day Event, Palin Calls It A ‘Sad Day’
  • The garlic then pops free of the skin, the root end can be cut or broken off easily, and the clove is pre-flattened for convenient mincing. They come at the age's most uncertain hours and sing an american tune
  • A small, dark man, dapper and debonair, swallow-tailed and top-hatted, was waltzing about the stage with dainty, mincing steps, and in a thin little voice singing something or other about somebody or something evidently pathetic. Amateur Night
  • Of the mincing laughingstock or the brisk excise defrauder, no sign whatsoever. Morgan’s Run
  • Frankly, I ain't built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
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