daintily
In refined manner
Daintily means in a delicate, refined, or fastidious manner.
Someone eating daintily takes small, careful bites: She daintily picked at her salad.
The word suggests graceful precision, sometimes with a hint of excessive fussiness or affectation: He daintily stepped around the puddles.
In a careful, subtle manner
- gingerlyWith wary caution
- carefullyWith deliberate attention
- gracefullyWith elegant movement
- elegantlyWith tasteful grace
lightly · gently · primly · mincingly · fastidiously · precisely · neatly · tenderly
Walk on foot-fronts
- pirouetteBallet turn on one foot
- balletClassical dance on pointe
- nimbleQuick and light-moving
- litheSupple and graceful
graceful · poised · light-footed · mincing · prancing · gliding · floating · skipping
delicately
In a careful, subtle manner
- gingerlyWith wary caution
- carefullyWith deliberate attention
- gracefullyWith elegant movement
elegantly · lightly · gently · primly · mincingly · fastidiously · precisely · neatly · tenderly · softly
tiptoe
Walk on foot-fronts
lithe · graceful · poised · light-footed · mincing · prancing · gliding · floating · skipping · fluttering
elegant
Gracefully refined, tasteful
- sophisticatedWorldly and cultured
- genteelAffectedly polite or refined
- culturedEducated in arts, manners
tasteful · polished · proper · prim · ladylike · courtly · decorous · mannerly · well-bred · gracious
nibbling
Eating in small bites
savoring · tasting · sampling · morsel · bite-sized · pinky · teacup · napkin · crumbs · fork
daintilyawkwardly
In a clumsy manner
clumsily · ungainly · gracelessly · lumberingly · oafishly
daintilyroughly
In approximate terms
harshly · heavily · forcefully · brutishly · coarsely
daintilycarelessly
Without due attention
sloppily · crudely · coarsely · messily · haphazardly