mincingly

adv

mincingly

adv

Etymology From mincing + -ly.

1

In a mincing way; affectedly, with excessive delicacy.

He walked somewhat mincingly, thin, in soiled whites, his brief-case under his arm.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 444:

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