mincing

1 That doesn't mean the former Texas A&M quarterback isn't mincing words.

2 She not only mined a title — the Divine Miss M — but also mastered a signature ­geisha-like walk of tiny, mincing steps.

3 He believes those idle minutes waiting for water to boil, ovens to heat or vegetables to cook can better be spent chopping onions, grating cheese or mincing garlic.

4 Katherine gives the man a small smile and takes a mincing step back, putting a few additional inches between her and the holy man.

5 You know — chopping, mincing, turning on a blender.

6 “I know you’re good with a dagger, but...how are your mincing skills?”

7 When I walk in, she’s mincing Dad into tiny pieces about putting a knife in the wrong drawer.

8 I think I ought to tell you what this is all about without mincing words.

我想我应该坦率地告诉你这一切是怎么回事.

9 "I would not want your skin to burn," he sings, less mincing than menacing, blowtorch in hand.

10 When I did get home, I'd race into the kitchen, but then start carefully delving into the recipe as listed: mincing the shallots and onions, pureeing the roasted peppers, grating the Parm.

11 Pioneer Natural Resources founder and CEO Scott Sheffield isn’t mincing words about a two-pronged threat pressuring independent oil and gas producers.

12 “What more I can do” is stop the “oh gosh that date might be tough!” mincing.

13 “Boys always forget other people’s birthdays. “You have committed the following crimes,” he continued: “having a dog with an unauthorized alarm, sowing confusion, upsetting the applecart, wreaking havoc, and mincing words.”

14 Eventually more dancers join in; as they take small, mincing steps in unison — spreading out and converging back together — a lyric pokes through the melody: “You are one of those creatures.”

15 A column of shining black ants walked across a windowsill, their bottoms tilted upwards, like a line of mincing chorus girls in a Busby Berkeley musical.

16 A Parisian mademoiselle making arch comments about the models, who did their mincing runway walk and then paused and posed in a mock photo studio, made an overwrought and long-drawn-out show.

17 In line for a burrito, a generously proportioned man mentioned that I had ‘‘some stones’’ to be mincing around a public place dressed this way.

18 She came to the park with mincing, and light footsteps.

她轻移莲步来到了花园之中.

19 It doesn't matter if you're slicing, dicing, or mincing, it all hurts.

20 Behind him were more than a dozen men furiously mincing large bunches of vegetables and cilantro in preparation for the day.

1 装腔作势的

portentous histrionical respectable solemn perky lackadaisical histrionic la-di-da niminy-piminy self-dramatizing

2 装模作样的

lardy-dardy unnatural laboured portentous highfalutin la-di-da affected chichi too-too airy twee mimsy apish missish

3 忸怩作态

cutesy posturing

4 忸怩作态的

coy cutesy camp it up

5 做作

camp artificial affected theatrical unnatural overblown histrionic stagy flatulent la-di-da pretence flatulence affectation play-act

6 装腔作势

portentous pose attitudinize give oneself on airs strike an attitude pose histrionical respectable solemn perky lackadaisical histrionic la-di-da niminy-piminy self-dramatizing self-dramatization lug solemnity signify bluff playact prink prunes and prisms

7 矫饰

affected pretentious mannered frilly rosewater chichi minikin hypocrisy frill pretension affectation theatricality pretentiousness frippery ornate twee high-toned rose-water veneer pretense dissemble

8 矫饰的

affected pretentious mannered frilly rosewater chichi minikin ornate twee high-toned rose-water

9 矫揉造作

contrived mannered cutesy twee histrionic air slush contrivance slushy affectation artificial affected airs and graces

10 装模作样

lardy-dardy unnatural laboured too-too affectedly act Art posturing histrionics la-di-da pontify pose posture attitudinize strike an attitude take on airs put on an act portentous highfalutin fudge charade affectation camp it up affected chichi art front signify swagger airy twee mimsy apish missish frill preciosity camp do the grand with an air

11 婀娜而行

mince

12 矫揉做作的

cutesy

13 做作的

camp artificial affected theatrical unnatural overblown histrionic stagy flatulent la-di-da

14 矫揉造作的

contrived mannered cutesy twee histrionic slushy artificial affected