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Mincingly

adverb
1.
In a mincing manner.






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"Mincingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Reuben Gold," said the little old lady, mincingly. "Is Mr. Gold a native of Heydon Hay? I do not think, from Mr. Gold's appearance, that he was born when I quitted the village. I think I recognize my old friends, the Elds," she went on, with an air almost of patronage. "This will be Mr. Isaiah? ...
— Aunt Rachel • David Christie Murray

... let me go: I must sit down and write before them. As I dipped my pen in the ink with a shaking hand, and surveyed the white paper with eyes half-blinded and overflowing, one of my judges began mincingly to apologize ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte



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