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dainty, prim, mincing, twee
adj. affectedly dainty or refined
Fuzzynyms (18)
exquisite, recherche
adj. lavishly elegant and refined
elegant, refined, graceful
adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
Victorian, prim, prissy, square-toed, puritanical, priggish, prudish, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced
adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Synonyms (20)
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
couth
adj. (used facetiously) refined
debonair, debonaire, suave, polished, debonnaire
adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
delicate, finespun
adj. developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
gentlemanlike, gentlemanly
adj. befitting a man of good breeding; "gentlemanly behavior"
ladylike
adj. befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners"
superfine, overrefined
adj. excessively delicate or refined
well-mannered, well-bred
adj. of good upbringing
Antonyms (0)
niminy-piminy
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