mincingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mincingly (comparative more mincingly, superlative most mincingly)
- In a mincing way; affectedly, with excessive delicacy.
- Synonym: (obsolete) gingerly
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 444:
- He walked somewhat mincingly, thin, in soiled whites, his brief-case under his arm.