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MINCINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mincingly mean? 

MINCINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb MINCINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a mincing mannerplay

  Familiarity information: MINCINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MINCINGLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a mincing manner

Context example:

she stepped mincingly over the puddles

Pertainym:

mincing (affectedly dainty or refined)


 Context examples 


These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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