noun
adjective
- Affectedly dainty or refined.
- synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee
- Delicately beautiful.
- usage: "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
- synonyms: exquisite
- Especially pleasing to the taste.
- usage: "a dainty dish to set before a kind";
- Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.
- usage: "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
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