daintily
Valid in Scrabble
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- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 8
/ˈdeɪntɪli/(UK)
Definition of daintily
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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In a dainty manner, delicately.
“SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.”
“Has he beſpoke, what will he have a brace, / Or but one Partridge, or a ſhort-leg'd Hen, / Daintyly carbonado'd?”
“At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.”
“[Allegra]'s daintily readjusting her stance.”
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Etymology
From Middle English deyntely; equivalent to dainty + -ly.
Words you can make from daintily
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12 words4-letter words
32 words- IDLY 8 pts
- IDYL 8 pts
- LADY 8 pts
- TIDY 8 pts
- YALD 8 pts
- AYIN 7 pts
- INLY 7 pts
- LINY 7 pts
- TINY 7 pts
- TIYN 7 pts
- TYIN 7 pts
- ADIT 5 pts
- DIAL 5 pts
- DINT 5 pts
- DITA 5 pts
- LAID 5 pts
- LAND 5 pts
- NIDI 5 pts
- ALIT 4 pts
- ANIL 4 pts
- ANTI 4 pts
- ILIA 4 pts
- INIA 4 pts
- INTI 4 pts
- LAIN 4 pts
- LATI 4 pts
- LINT 4 pts
- NAIL 4 pts
- TAIL 4 pts
- TAIN 4 pts
- TALI 4 pts
- TIAN 4 pts
3-letter words
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