daintiness
Example Sentences
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DRESDEN, Germany — In a display case at the German Hygiene Museum here is a pretty, blue glass bottle whose daintiness belies its purpose.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a man not known for daintiness in the mud-wallows of politics, once ordered Bossie fired from a congressional staff for playing fast and loose with the truth.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
After her debut, a Time magazine critic described her work as having “the daintiness of miniatures, the vivid reds and yellows of Mexican tradition and the playfully bloody fancy of an unsentimental child.”
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2018
The other cars’ designs revel too much in their own daintiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2016
Some of them had separated their money, folded the bills around their fingers, clenched the fingers into fists, so the neat ends of the money stuck out in a blend of daintiness and violence.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
