mincingly

Etymology

From mincing + -ly.

adv

  1. In a mincing way; affectedly, with excessive delicacy.
    He walked somewhat mincingly, thin, in soiled whites, his brief-case under his arm. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 444

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