Crossword-Solution: MINCING 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

It is of no use mincing the matter; Dr John Marsh, after being regarded by his friends at home as hopelessly unimpressible — in short, an absolute woman-hater — had found his fate on a desolate isle of the Southern seas, he had fallen — nay, let us be just — had jumped over head and ears in love with Pauline Rigonda! Dr Marsh was no sentimental die-away noodle who, half-ashamed, half-proud of his condition, displays it to the semi-contemptuous world. No; after disbelieving fo…

As if somehow irony,” she recaps for Maxine, “as practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actually brought on the events of 11 September, by keeping the country insufficiently serious — weakening its grip on ‘reality.’ So all kinds of make-believe — forget the delusional state the country’s in already — must suffer as well. Everything has to be literal now.”“Yeah, the kids are even getting it at school.” Ms. Cheung, an English teacher who if Kugelblitz were a town would …

[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt.