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daintily

adverb as in softly

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Example Sentences

The creature daintily stepped into it, smiling shyly up at Jack as his grandfather walked over.

At one point, she daintily wraps a piece of tulle ribbon around a raw fish carcass.

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As Napoleon strolled into the dining tent, his chef quickly fried up the eggs from his steward’s pocket and placed them daintily atop the general’s feast.

You see how Julie methodically, and with a hint of odd urgency, unpacks her luggage, and how Rosalind daintily removes a tablet from a pillbox.

The first man bites daintily into a brownish-green loaf and sips pale liquid.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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