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daintily

[ deyn-ti-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a way that shows fine or delicate manners or tastes:
She'd been nibbling daintily on a sparerib; now she dabbed her lips with a napkin.
with particular care to avoid soiling, spilling, damage, etc.; fastidiously:
We piled our trash daintily atop overfilled garbage cans.
delicately and beautifully, or with fine, exquisite detail:
I was glad for the moment to be neither an ornithologist nor an entomologist, so that I might leave every one of these daintily colored sunbirds and butterflies to the enjoyment of its life.

A cigar should be handled daintily; it is a fragile, graceful creature—don't mar its beauty.

The table was set with Georgian silver and decorated daintily with flowers, while several of the women wore splendid jewels.

How daintily they sip it; how happy they seem; how that lucky rogue of an Irishman prattles away!

A moment later he refers daintily and accurately to the chapel of Saint Nicholas "riding on the bridge, slender and pretty."

She arose from the table and handed me a daintily scented missive addressed to Mrs. Shadd, and I faithfully executed her errand.

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