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adj. - Affectedly dainty or refined.

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Usage examples (14)
  • Adjective : A niminy-piminy shyness makes frankness impossible
  • I don't think we need have any niminy-piminy fancies against that.
  • And, in case you think I am sounding too niminy-piminy here, a third tucking into his 'Double Bubble, two slice and a cup a tea please love' while enjoying the special...
  • These fashion-plates of fifty years ago are designed by very different hands from those which produce our niminy-piminy looking things, -- by artists plainly; and your...
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