DAINTILY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a dainty and fastidious manner

Example:

she nibbled daintily at her cake

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

dainty (excessively fastidious and easily disgusted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a delicate manner

Example:

the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

dainty (delicately beautiful)

Credits

Context examples:

A red chaperon or cap, with long hanging cornette, sat daintily on the back of his black-curled head, while his gold-hued shoes were twisted up a la poulaine, as though the toes were shooting forth a tendril which might hope in time to entwine itself around his massive leg.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.