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Definition of "mincingly" [min•cing•ly]

  • In a mincing way; affectedly, with excessive delicacy. (adverb)

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Use "mincingly" in a sentence
  • "This unusual posture again excited suspicion, and the animal sidled mincingly away."
  • "The bill came due in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War; patriotic German paintings from the time show manly Prussian troopers upsetting "mincingly delicate furniture.""
  • "If you've been hired because you are young and pretty, because you are mincingly camp, because you've ticked a particular ethnic box and then you are no longer young and pretty or the fashions have moved on and you suddenly don't have a job – get over it."