mincingly

IPA: mˈɪnsɪŋɫi

Examples of "mincingly" in Sentences

This unusual posture again excited suspicion, and the animal sidled mincingly away.
In a moment of mincingly understated candour Fred Hiltz admitted that this might “create some tension”:
The bill came due in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War; patriotic German paintings from the time show manly Prussian troopers upsetting "mincingly delicate furniture."
Then the insolence — the confidence — [as Betty mincingly told me, that one said; you may easily guess who] that she, who was so justly in disgrace for downright rebellion, should pretend to prescribe to the whole family! —
These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.
I mincingly and carefully stepped to the door, took a deep breath, gave myself some extra chest support with my right arm, and ran as fast as I could to the other end of the bedroom where the towels were laying in a pile on the floor.
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.