Dainty in a sentence as a noun

From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear.

Don't know if it's my dainty little fingers or what the deal is.> Same blinding snow storm that day!Nah, probably not the same storm.

You know, it's not that they're stupid, it's just that they're just too dainty and precious for our rough and tumble profession.

A server needed to worry less about splashing or spilling than with a dainty flute, or about smashing that fancier glass on the way back to the bar.

.NET is also so slathered up with dainty object boxing that to claim a .NET coder could easily pickup assembly is more than laughable.

The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”'

The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.

Dainty in a sentence as an adjective

> the crazy and untrue implication that women are too dainty to handle off-color jokesWhich is sexist, and I can't see how others can't see how sexist it is.

I took a poll of the other person in our hackerspace right now: she thinks this is funny.>Isn't it way more offensive to assume that women are such dainty delicate creatures that like, they won't get the joke?I think so. Every female hacker I've ever talked to has expressed that their worst fear is people acting differently around them.

One of the things that bugged me about this whole sordid business was the crazy and untrue implication that women are too dainty to handle off-color jokes, or that if you think they're funny, then you're against women in tech.

It's mostly hocus-pocus business theater wearing a suit and tie and saying the expensive, semi-gloss prospectus in front of them mitigates risk when they're too dainty to understand how sausage is made in the sausage factory.

> Isn't it way more offensive to assume that women are such dainty delicate creatures that like, they won't get the joke?Literally no-one said anything of the sort; the fact that this is where your mind went speaks volumes about your attitude towards women.

It's true that those voices aren't as loud and may not exist in your echo chamber, but you can't feign ignorance and claim that everyone telling you it's stupid, not funny, immature, and offensive don't exist/are a vanishingly small minority.>> Isn't it way more offensive to assume that women are such dainty delicate creatures that like, they won't get the joke?>> If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it,

Dainty definitions

noun

something considered choice to eat

See also: delicacy goody kickshaw treat

adjective

affectedly dainty or refined

See also: mincing niminy-piminy prim twee

adjective

delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"

See also: exquisite

adjective

especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind";

adjective

excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

See also: nice overnice prissy squeamish