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• n  something considered choice to eat
• s  affectedly dainty or refined
• s  delicately beautiful
  a dainty teacup
• s  especially pleasing to the taste;
  a dainty dish to set before a kind
• s  excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• For ladies doing the washing, cooking and scrubbing at home, life isn't so dainty.
• The business tycoon owned industries that made everything from dynamite to dainty ladies' lipsticks.
• The dance films she did may have been cheesy documents of bump-and-grind; the bondage films, creepy if dainty invocations of sadomasochism.

• delicacy
• goody
• kickshaw
• treat
• mincing
• niminy-piminy
• prim
• twee
• exquisite
• nice
• overnice
• prissy
• squeamish

News & Articles

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• Must Have: Vegetarian "Broccoli Dogs" At Dirt Candy
  One of our absolute favorite restaurants in NYC—vegetarian or otherwise—is the dainty little East Village restaurant Dirt Candy , where bold chef Amanda Cohen is constantly developing innovative and irresistible ways of cooking with vegetables. Her latest creation is a cheeky entree consisting of two "Broccoli Dogs," served with a side of salt and vinegar broccoli rabe chips. No lips or assholes ...
  June 14, 2013 - Gothamist

Quotes

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• Big Boi in International Herald Tribune
  I just thought it would be ...... cool ...... to make something that's so dainty and elegant and sophisticated to some of this hard core, bumping type funk that we do,says Big Boi, who was born Antwan Patton.
• Michael Jacobson in WebMD
  Compared to some of the foods we're seeing in restaurants now, the Big Mac seems downright dainty,says Michael Jacobson, executive director of the consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
• Christopher Plummer in Bloomberg
  But when Plummer, in a near-whisper, says, "Why that's my dainty Ariel. I shall miss thee; but yet thou shalt have freedom. So, so, so," those last three syllables have a tugging poignancy.