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mincier

mincier is the comparative form of mincy.

Meaning of mincy

Adjective

mincy (comparative mincier, superlative minciest)

  1. (informal) mincing; affectedly dainty
    • Becky had been trying to move out of the society pages and into stories of more substance in recent months, a major shift for her. When I worked for the Herald, she was kind of a mincy, snotty little thing who dressed in heels and blouses […]2016, Meg O'Brien, A Bright Flamingo Shroud

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Questions about mincier

What is mincier the comparative form of?
Mincier is the comparative form of mincy.

Words near mincier in the dictionary

  1. Minchinbury
  2. minching
  3. Minchinhampton
  4. Minchir
  5. Mincho
  6. mincier
  7. minciest
  8. mincing
  9. mincing one's words
  10. mincing up
  11. mincing words

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mincier (page history and authors); mincy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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