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niminy-piminy

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nim·i·ny-pim·i·ny  (nm-n-pm-n)
adj.
Affectedly delicate or refined; mincing.
[Perhaps alteration of namby-pamby.]
niminy-piminy [ˈnɪmɪnɪˈpɪmɪnɪ]
adj
excessively refined; prim
[imitative of a prim affected enunciation]
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Adj.1.niminy-piminy - affectedly dainty or refinedniminy-piminy - affectedly dainty or refined        
dainty, mincing, prim, twee
refined - (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
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Jonathan Jones Antonio Canova - The Three Graces (1814-1817) "They are three pretty simpletons, with the niminy-piminy airs of a fashionable boarding school; there is silliness without simplicity.
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Young's observations on "the Jewish Question" are genteel, pseudo-academic and rather niminy-piminy in tone.
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Vivien Leigh's Lady Macbeth is 'more niminy-piminy than thundery-blundery'.
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