mincing
/ˈmɪnsɪŋ
/adjective
(Of a man) affectedly dainty in manner or gait; effeminate: I don’t have to go through the rest of my life with that mincing voice of yours
Derivatives
mincingly
/ adverb ...- We walked, mincingly at first so as not to kick the people in front of us in the crowd.
- We have a couple of pea-fowl who certainly are an addition to the landscape, as they step mincingly along the square of turf we dignify by the name of lawn.
- As each gallery's attractions were listed, Ms. Nolan struck sophisticated poses and moved mincingly en pointe, yet never made clear just what the sketch's choreographic point was supposed to be.
- not a thing
- not at home
- notatin
- notation
- notational
- notationally
- notationist
- notative
- notator
- not bat (or without batting) an eyelid (or eye or eyelash)
- not be able to do something a lick
- not be able to do something for toffee
- not be above
- not be an option
- not bear thinking about
- not before time
- not be fussy
- not-being
- (not) be myself
- not be oneself
- (not) be ourselves
- not be someone's first rodeo (or not be someone's first time at the rodeo)
- not best pleased
- (not) be themselves
- not be worth a damn