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# daintily

«daintily» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a neat, delicate and careful way, especially when…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (more daintily, most daintily)

### meaning for a pupil

In a neat, delicate and careful way, especially when eating or moving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daintily/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

how a character eats, walks or handles something small and fine

### examples

- The monkey took the food daintily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daintily/#x1)
- She picked up the cup daintily with two fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daintily/#x2)
- The cat stepped daintily over the wet grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daintily/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «daintily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daintily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.