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nicey-nicey

nicey-nicey adjective: nice, especially in an impotent or insincere fashion.

Adjective

nicey-nicey (comparative more nicey-nicey, superlative most nicey-nicey)

  1. (informal) Nice, especially in an impotent or insincere fashion.
    • Things have not always been so nicey-nicey in the Pleiades. They blew up a planet; they had some negative energy, and they said, "We're never going to experience that negativity again. We are going to banish it!"1987, Robert Shapiro, The Explorer Race, →ISBN, page 323
    • Choosing to be ignorant is choosing to be nicey-nicey. The opposite of a nicey-nicey is a bitch, who does bite (take hold of an issue), rip (attack a problem without delay), and snarl (use threatening language).1988, Arlene Raven, Cassandra L. Langer, Joanna Frueh, Feminist Art Criticism: an Anthology, →ISBN, page 163

Forms of nicey-nicey

comparativemore nicey-nicey
superlativemost nicey-nicey
alternative formnicey-nice
alternative formnicey nicey
alternative formnicy-nicy

Questions about nicey-nicey

What does nicey-nicey mean?
Nicey-nicey means nice, especially in an impotent or insincere fashion.
What part of speech is nicey-nicey?
Nicey-nicey is an adjective.

Words near nicey-nicey in the dictionary

  1. niceverine
  2. Niceville
  3. Nicey
  4. nicey nicey
  5. nicey-nice
  6. nicey-nicey
  7. niche
  8. niche market
  9. niche marketing
  10. niche markets
  11. niched

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