mincing

“James Woods has a reputation in the business of not mincing words,” Breitbart posted in September 2013.

He also has a best supporting actor nomination for his mincing, lovestruck Olivia in Twelfth Night.

Stirling was never addicted to mincing matters, but Weston could not quite repress a grin.

I must venture to add, without mincing the matter, what I really believe, of this Book.

There were whisperings below, and apparently a hurried consultation, and then a young woman came mincing up the stairs.

After the world of politics, with its hair-splitting and word-mincing, it was good to be with soldiers—the men who do the work.

I have heard it said of ladies who walk with a mincing gait that "she steps out like a hen before day."