Crossword-Solution: DAINTY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dainty | n. | Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. |
| Dainty | n. | That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. |
| Dainty | n. | A term of fondness. |
| Dainty | superl. | Rare; valuable; costly. |
| Dainty | superl. | Delicious to the palate; toothsome. |
| Dainty | superl. | Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender. |
| Dainty | superl. | Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DAINTY (5)
The Farmer felt in his pocket, gave the Lapdog some dainty food, and sat down while he gave his orders to his servants.
There were sad, haggard women tramping by, well dressed, with children that cried and stumbled, their dainty clothes smothered in dust, their weary faces smeared with tears.
Happily, Ichabod Crane was not in so great a hurry as his historian, but did ample justice to every dainty.
Their ancestors had oppressed the people, had crushed them under the scarlet heels of their dainty buckled shoes, and now the people had become the rulers of France and crushed their former masters—not beneath their heel, for they went shoeless mostly in these days—but beneath a more effectual weight, the knife of the guillotine.
His cap was a dainty thing, his close-buttoned blue cloth roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaloons.
Quotes with DAINTY (3)
What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. "There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our hig…
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.
I thanked the lucky stars for my great metabolism, because Karsen had showed me pictures of her mom once and it was scary the transformation she underwent after popping three kids out. She went from a small, dainty beauty to a giant pineapple blob of a body.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 64 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).