Daintily

  • 51Gluttony — • The excessive indulgence in food and drink Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Gluttony     Gluttony     † …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 52sip — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ little, small, tiny ▪ careful, cautious, tentative ▪ quick, slow …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 53delicately — Synonyms and related words: compliantly, cunningly, cutely, daintily, easily, effeminately, faintly, feebly, gently, infirmly, languorously, listlessly, shakily, softly, strengthlessly, submissively, teeteringly, tenderly, totteringly, unsoundly …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 54gingerly — Synonyms and related words: calculating, cannily, canny, careful, carefully, cautious, cautiously, charily, chary, circumspect, circumspectly, considerate, daintily, dainty, deliberate, delicate, delicately, discreet, fastidious, guarded,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 55weakly — Synonyms and related words: a bit, a la sourdine, a little, anemic, asthenic, barely, bloodless, by a hair, by an ace, cachectic, chicken, cowardly, daintily, debilitated, decrepit, delicately, dimly, drained, drooping, droopy, dull, effeminately …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 56MADRIGAL —    a short lyric containing some pleasant thought or sweet sentiment daintily expressed; applied also to vocal music of a similar character …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 57éstelic — adj kind, gracious; devout; delicate, dainty (of food); adv ésteliclíce; kindly, gladly, delicately, daintily; graciously; courteously; luxuriously …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 58gracefully — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lithely, agilely, harmoniously, daintily, nimbly, elegantly, trimly, symmetrically, beautifully, felicitously, delicately, tastefully, artistically, pliantly, easily, dexterously, smoothly, skillfully, fairly, adroitly,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 59dainty — dain|ty1 [ˈdeınti] adj comparative daintier superlative daintiest 1.) small, pretty, and delicate ▪ a dainty gold chain ▪ a child with dainty features 2.) moving or done in a careful way, using small movements ▪ a dainty walk >daintily adv …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 60general — [13] General is one of a vast range of English words which go back ultimately to the prehistoric Indo European base *gen , *gon , *gn , denoting ‘produce’. Its Germanic offshoots include kin, kind, and probably king, but for sheer numbers it is… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins