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adj. - Affectedly dainty or refined.

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  • One does very little cutting on vegetables using the tip, though, I do find it useful in mincing garlic and finely dicing onions.
  • The word mincing has appeared in 19 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 21 in the theater review Reaching Deep Into a
  • Also consider that the Clinton brand is heavily weighted by a kind of mincing language that plays with the truth.
  • And they run on their hind legs with a kind of mincing balletic movement, which is absolutely enchanting, I can tell you.
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