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Word Meanings - MINCING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.

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  • SMOOTHEN
    To make smooth.
  • SMOOTHNESS
    Quality or state of being smooth.
  • SMOOTH
    Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding,
  • MEALY
    1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. 2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. Mealy bug ,
  • MINCE
    less, Goth. minniza less, mins less, adv., L. minor, adj. (cf. Minor); or more likely fr. F. mincer to mince, prob. from 1. To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat. Bacon. 2. To suppress or weaken the force of; to
  • SANCTIMONIOUS
    1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
  • SMOOTH-CHINNED
    Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
  • SMOOTHLY
    In a smooth manner.
  • SMOOTH-SPOKEN
    Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
  • SMOOTHER
    One who, or that which, smooths.
  • MINCER
    One who minces.
  • SMOOTHING
    fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
  • MINCING
    That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
  • SMOOTH-TONGUED
    Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
  • SMOOTHBORE
    Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.
  • MINCINGLY
    In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.
  • HYPOCRITICAL
    Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action. Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared. Macaulay. -- Hyp`o*crit"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • MEALY-MOUTHED
    Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange.
  • UNCTUOUS
    1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. "The unctuous cheese." Longfellow. 2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. 3. Bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes,
  • MINCE-MEAT
    Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.
  • CIRCUMINCESSION
    The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.
  • PHARISAIC; PHARISAICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. "The Pharisaic sect among the Jews." Cudworth. 2. Hence: Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal;

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