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单词 mincing
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mincing

Your gait takes on a personality instead of being a generic little mincing thing that diminishes you.But they walked free - despite one boasting on tape that he had used a mincing machine to dispose of her remains.So does the big mincing machine: not onstage for long, but long enough.He said that neither of the transcripts read by the defendants' lawyers included anything about bones, a mincing machine or blood.

Synonyms of 'mincing'

affected, camp, precious, pretentious
More Synonyms of mincing
(adjective) 
Definition
(of a person or their style of walking or speaking) affectedly elegant
He waddled onto the stage with tiny mincing steps.
Synonyms
affected
She passed by with an affected air and a disdainful look.
camp (informal)
All the characters are either too camp or too dull.
precious
Actors, he decided, were all precious and neurotic.
pretentious
He talked a lot of pretentious twaddle about modern art.
dainty
foppish
arty-farty (informal)
lah-di-dah (informal)
niminy-piminy

Additional synonyms

in the sense of camp
Definition
consciously artificial, vulgar, or affected
All the characters are either too camp or too dull.
Synonyms
affected,
mannered,
artificial,
posturing,
ostentatious,
campy (informal),
camped up (informal)
in the sense of precious
Definition
very affected in speech, manners, or behaviour
Actors, he decided, were all precious and neurotic.
Synonyms
affected,
artificial,
fastidious,
twee (British, informal),
chichi,
overrefined,
overnice
in the sense of pretentious
Definition
vulgarly showy
He talked a lot of pretentious twaddle about modern art.
Synonyms
affected,
mannered,
exaggerated,
pompous,
assuming,
hollow,
inflated,
extravagant,
high-flown,
flaunting,
grandiose,
conceited,
showy,
ostentatious,
snobbish,
puffed up,
bombastic,
specious,
grandiloquent,
vainglorious,
high-sounding,
highfalutin (informal),
overambitious,
arty-farty (informal),
magniloquent

Nearby words of
mincing

  • mimicry
  • minatory
  • mince
  • mincing
  • mind
  • mind or watch your step
  • mind out

Related terms of
mincing

  • mince

Synonyms of 'mincing'

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