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Daintily

//ˈdeɪntɪli// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a dainty manner, delicately.

    "SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a dainty and fastidious manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in a manner suggestive of delicate beauty or grace wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English deyntely; equivalent to dainty + -ly.

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