Synonym: cute, delicate, fresh, pretty, small. Antonym: coarse, distasteful, tasteless, unpalatable, unsavory, vulgar. Similar words: uncertainty, maintain, ain't, faint, painter, paintwork, in the main, complaint. Meaning: ['deɪntɪ]
n. something considered choice to eat. adj. 1. affectedly dainty or refined 2. delicately beautiful 3. especially pleasing to the taste 4. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.
61. I was most pleased Shier is gathering flowers, and a dainty pink roses, noble and elegant tulips, as well as the rare summer bloom, etc. , these exotica perianth into my personal florist.
62. Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king?
63. Her poor clothes were neat, and she held her head unconsciously in a dainty way.
64. Had I been born where laws are less strict and tastes less dainty, I should treat myself,to a slow vivisection of those two, as an evening's amusement.