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Definition of nicety in English: nicetynounPlural niceties ˈnʌɪsɪtiˈnaɪsədi 1A fine or subtle detail or distinction. legal niceties are wasted on him Example sentencesExamples - This, in other words, was not a time to get hung up on legal niceties.
- If there is no significance, why do you think such niceties as the Chief Justice has described are observed?
- However, this is likely to become the definitive English version of Proust, and the endless arguments about the niceties of translation are perhaps of real concern only to very few.
- But why be squeamish about fine points and legal niceties when we're at war?
- But over the border its Iberian cousin observes no such narrow territorial niceties.
- This may sound a technical nicety, but notice that this activity is the primary activity on derivatives markets.
- Legal niceties matter only when the interests of enemies are at stake.
- Why should such niceties matter, as long as a dangerous terrorist is no longer at large?
- Careful observance of procedural niceties will impede any speedy response to an unfolding massacre.
- Parents will feed their children no matter what the niceties of your laws are.
- Disregard the niceties of the terms vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
- But behind the niceties of the legal arguments, most observers believe that the real agenda is the property play of this very valuable site.
- The women brushed aside legal niceties - such as the fact the Scottish parliament has no powers to intervene on immigration and the granting of visas.
- The reply skated over the nicety that he has the right to censor key aspects of ISC reports on security grounds, and so will see the text before it is technically presented to him.
- And they will hire the finest lawyers and planners to navigate their private fortunes safely through the arcane niceties of the tax code.
- But the autumn of 1945 was not a time noted for sensitivity to the legal niceties of high treason.
- But such technical niceties were never likely to win the day last week.
- The armies of the Axis, Italy and Germany, generally observed the niceties of international law when fighting against western powers.
- Without entering into the niceties of Hume's distinctions between the direct and indirect or the calm and violent passions, I think that the following points should be accepted.
- Fry's displaced neighbors may not have known it, but their financial future hung on a legal nicety - the distinction between real estate and personal property or, in legal terms, chattel.
Synonyms fine point, subtlety, nuance, fine distinction, shade, refinement, detail - 1.1mass noun Accuracy or precision.
she prided herself on her nicety of pronunciation Example sentencesExamples - These sub-heads, which are not all very clearly phrased, should accordingly be construed according to their general sense and without too much nicety of language.
- Last year, Porto brushed aside Monaco; the previous year Milan won on penalties after a match that was long on tactical nicety but short on excitement for the neutral.
- Nevertheless, the book is rich in historical nicety culled from scholarly sources, and the avid fan of cultural folklore and the role of fraternal societies will experience it as a tough but rewarding nut to crack.
- When asked who would be a good model woman writer she responded, ‘I know of no one better than Miss Jewett to study for technique and nicety of construction.’
- This confluence happens 100 yards behind Bath railway station, and matches the city's nicety of line.
Synonyms precision, accuracy, exactness, meticulousness, rigour, rigorousness - 1.2 A detail or aspect of polite social behaviour.
we were brought up to observe the niceties Example sentencesExamples - For them it is a religious duty to do so, and it does not recognise social niceties and common courtesies.
- All five sit down and begin an overly polite conversation covering such social niceties as the weather.
- In a world of coded language and social niceties, Willis has no qualms about expressing his loves, hates, fears and passions in the bluntest possible terms.
- We were so busy we didn't have time for social niceties.
- The outside, or biruni, is by contrast a public space where social niceties must be observed.
- Me, well, I couldn't wait to get out of the place fast enough, shamelessly avoiding pointless class photos whenever possible and keeping the social niceties to the bare minimum.
- Too many parents are willing to turn over the teaching of morals and social niceties to schools.
- I know it's not polite of me to jump over the social niceties like this, but I really don't care that much right now.
- They are to be wed in an hour, but a confidence is overheard and suddenly madness ensues, but it must kept within the confines of social niceties.
- She was beyond social niceties or circumspection or the deliberate creation of an effect and yet nothing she said contradicted what her life had always told us she was.
- She would not mince her words or thoughts and never subscribed to social niceties of polite but fallacious and insincere expressions.
- You don't have to follow the rules of social decorum or the niceties of society because you are privileged.
- Though the young couple arrives with good intentions, social niceties are smashed as the foursome gets trashed.
- At the outset she zips through the social niceties and plunges into a concentrated burst of questions and note-taking.
- Many on the estate blame the council's letting policy, which meant young people with no idea of social niceties, and drug addicts, managed to get flats.
- That's fine, it's no big deal, and it's said as much as a social nicety than with any intent to actually do it.
- The seasons turn, the social niceties are maintained and those who remember the last war refuse to contemplate a second global conflict.
- Anyone suffering guilt for the rebellion against all social niceties would have kept up the pretence that she didn't want any water, at least until I had left the building.
- However, he soon finds the laconic Charlotte to be more than he bargained for, as she shreds every assumption or attempt at social niceties that he makes.
- A stickler for etiquette and social niceties, this is the sign more than any other that is likely to have nightmares over the phrasing of invitations!
Phrases the air raid was timed to a nicety Example sentencesExamples - Tactically clever and daringly innovative, Hiddink had tuned his wards to a nicety.
- The ‘portsider’ as lefthanders in bowling parlance are called, hooked his strikes to a nicety with great regularity and even exhibited his uncanny knack of clearing the ‘splits’ with consistency.
- The nature of the application with which I am concerned means that I do not need to weigh the variety of competing factors to a nicety.
- Where there has been an attack so that defence is reasonably necessary, it should be recognised that a person defending himself cannot weight to a nicety the exact measure of necessary defensive action.
- Each is provided with an eight-inch cylinder, which may be made to revolve by a delicate system of clockwork so finely regulated that both instruments work together to a nicety.
- The Kiwi settled in Australia, however, timed his challenge to a nicety and with Naren encountering problems with his car, Warren began to consolidate his lead.
- Come the next election and these guys were beginning to suspect that the populace had them sussed to a nicety and, lacking any other credible platform, began to play the nationalist card.
- Dawson and Wilkinson have played so much together as to have the ploy down to a nicety which, at the crunch, as the World Cup final so graphically illustrated, can be just the ticket.
- He tested out long-time rival Arup Basak's game plan to a nicety and though Basak took the first game of the final at 11-8, it was Raman who had come out stronger.
- She accepted that the Secretary of State is not able to judge local factors to a nicety.
Synonyms accurately, exactly, carefully, to a nicety
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'foolish conduct'): from Old French nicete, based on Latin nescius 'ignorant' (see nice). Definition of nicety in US English: nicetynounˈnīsədēˈnaɪsədi usually niceties1A fine detail or distinction, especially one regarded as intricate and fussy. she was never interested in the niceties of Greek and Latin Example sentencesExamples - Disregard the niceties of the terms vandalism and anti-social behaviour.
- But behind the niceties of the legal arguments, most observers believe that the real agenda is the property play of this very valuable site.
- Legal niceties matter only when the interests of enemies are at stake.
- Careful observance of procedural niceties will impede any speedy response to an unfolding massacre.
- But the autumn of 1945 was not a time noted for sensitivity to the legal niceties of high treason.
- And they will hire the finest lawyers and planners to navigate their private fortunes safely through the arcane niceties of the tax code.
- The armies of the Axis, Italy and Germany, generally observed the niceties of international law when fighting against western powers.
- However, this is likely to become the definitive English version of Proust, and the endless arguments about the niceties of translation are perhaps of real concern only to very few.
- Parents will feed their children no matter what the niceties of your laws are.
- The reply skated over the nicety that he has the right to censor key aspects of ISC reports on security grounds, and so will see the text before it is technically presented to him.
- But over the border its Iberian cousin observes no such narrow territorial niceties.
- Without entering into the niceties of Hume's distinctions between the direct and indirect or the calm and violent passions, I think that the following points should be accepted.
- If there is no significance, why do you think such niceties as the Chief Justice has described are observed?
- This, in other words, was not a time to get hung up on legal niceties.
- But why be squeamish about fine points and legal niceties when we're at war?
- The women brushed aside legal niceties - such as the fact the Scottish parliament has no powers to intervene on immigration and the granting of visas.
- Fry's displaced neighbors may not have known it, but their financial future hung on a legal nicety - the distinction between real estate and personal property or, in legal terms, chattel.
- But such technical niceties were never likely to win the day last week.
- This may sound a technical nicety, but notice that this activity is the primary activity on derivatives markets.
- Why should such niceties matter, as long as a dangerous terrorist is no longer at large?
Synonyms fine point, subtlety, nuance, fine distinction, shade, refinement, detail - 1.1 Accuracy or precision.
she prided herself on her nicety of pronunciation Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless, the book is rich in historical nicety culled from scholarly sources, and the avid fan of cultural folklore and the role of fraternal societies will experience it as a tough but rewarding nut to crack.
- These sub-heads, which are not all very clearly phrased, should accordingly be construed according to their general sense and without too much nicety of language.
- Last year, Porto brushed aside Monaco; the previous year Milan won on penalties after a match that was long on tactical nicety but short on excitement for the neutral.
- When asked who would be a good model woman writer she responded, ‘I know of no one better than Miss Jewett to study for technique and nicety of construction.’
- This confluence happens 100 yards behind Bath railway station, and matches the city's nicety of line.
Synonyms precision, accuracy, exactness, meticulousness, rigour, rigorousness - 1.2 A minor aspect of polite social behavior; a detail of etiquette.
we were brought up to observe the niceties Example sentencesExamples - All five sit down and begin an overly polite conversation covering such social niceties as the weather.
- At the outset she zips through the social niceties and plunges into a concentrated burst of questions and note-taking.
- For them it is a religious duty to do so, and it does not recognise social niceties and common courtesies.
- She would not mince her words or thoughts and never subscribed to social niceties of polite but fallacious and insincere expressions.
- Anyone suffering guilt for the rebellion against all social niceties would have kept up the pretence that she didn't want any water, at least until I had left the building.
- A stickler for etiquette and social niceties, this is the sign more than any other that is likely to have nightmares over the phrasing of invitations!
- The outside, or biruni, is by contrast a public space where social niceties must be observed.
- Many on the estate blame the council's letting policy, which meant young people with no idea of social niceties, and drug addicts, managed to get flats.
- However, he soon finds the laconic Charlotte to be more than he bargained for, as she shreds every assumption or attempt at social niceties that he makes.
- Me, well, I couldn't wait to get out of the place fast enough, shamelessly avoiding pointless class photos whenever possible and keeping the social niceties to the bare minimum.
- You don't have to follow the rules of social decorum or the niceties of society because you are privileged.
- Though the young couple arrives with good intentions, social niceties are smashed as the foursome gets trashed.
- They are to be wed in an hour, but a confidence is overheard and suddenly madness ensues, but it must kept within the confines of social niceties.
- Too many parents are willing to turn over the teaching of morals and social niceties to schools.
- She was beyond social niceties or circumspection or the deliberate creation of an effect and yet nothing she said contradicted what her life had always told us she was.
- That's fine, it's no big deal, and it's said as much as a social nicety than with any intent to actually do it.
- I know it's not polite of me to jump over the social niceties like this, but I really don't care that much right now.
- We were so busy we didn't have time for social niceties.
- The seasons turn, the social niceties are maintained and those who remember the last war refuse to contemplate a second global conflict.
- In a world of coded language and social niceties, Willis has no qualms about expressing his loves, hates, fears and passions in the bluntest possible terms.
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - Dawson and Wilkinson have played so much together as to have the ploy down to a nicety which, at the crunch, as the World Cup final so graphically illustrated, can be just the ticket.
- The Kiwi settled in Australia, however, timed his challenge to a nicety and with Naren encountering problems with his car, Warren began to consolidate his lead.
- Each is provided with an eight-inch cylinder, which may be made to revolve by a delicate system of clockwork so finely regulated that both instruments work together to a nicety.
- Where there has been an attack so that defence is reasonably necessary, it should be recognised that a person defending himself cannot weight to a nicety the exact measure of necessary defensive action.
- Tactically clever and daringly innovative, Hiddink had tuned his wards to a nicety.
- The nature of the application with which I am concerned means that I do not need to weigh the variety of competing factors to a nicety.
- Come the next election and these guys were beginning to suspect that the populace had them sussed to a nicety and, lacking any other credible platform, began to play the nationalist card.
- She accepted that the Secretary of State is not able to judge local factors to a nicety.
- The ‘portsider’ as lefthanders in bowling parlance are called, hooked his strikes to a nicety with great regularity and even exhibited his uncanny knack of clearing the ‘splits’ with consistency.
- He tested out long-time rival Arup Basak's game plan to a nicety and though Basak took the first game of the final at 11-8, it was Raman who had come out stronger.
Synonyms accurately, exactly, carefully, to a nicety
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘foolish conduct’): from Old French nicete, based on Latin nescius ‘ignorant’ (see nice). |