Get to know Mincing better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like dainty or prim.
Mincing meaning
present participle and gerund of mince
Using Mincing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of mince
- Useful related words include: dainty, niminy-piminy, prim, twee.
- In the example corpus, mincing often appears in combinations such as: mincing words, without mincing, not mincing.
Context around Mincing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mincing
- In this selection, "mincing" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stopped, less, words, lane and poodle stand out and add context to how "mincing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include without mincing words the and abdulkareem without mincing words it. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mincing" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mincing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Arya Stark has spoken, and she's not mincing words. (10 words)
That exercise and without mincing words is, to say the least, sub judice. (13 words)
Adeyemi without mincing words said AC Milan would triumph in the all- Italian quarterfinal. (14 words)
A prime minister, Julia Gillard, might have likened him to a mincing poodle, but she has gone, defeated, and just about everyone long ago came around to Pyne’s own description of himself: a fellow with a hide as thick as a rhino. (43 words)
Expedia Group’s new CEO isn’t mincing words about one of the company’s biggest challenges: Google’s dual role as a rival in online travel, and a key source of customers through search traffic and paid advertising. (39 words)
In a strong appeal to the world to unite against ‘the plague of Islamophobia’, the UN Secretary General without mincing words said Muslims have been an important source of culture, philosophy, scholarship and science for centuries. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Adeyemi without mincing words said AC Milan would triumph in the all- Italian quarterfinal.
No mincing words — breaching any oneof these boundaries causes the eventual end of life as we know it.
Without mincing words, Nigeria has been left in a far worse mess and that’s putting it rather politely.
Without mincing words, the SC said that the burning of crop residue in the neighboring states of Punjab and Haryana remains a key factor behind Delhi's winter air pollution as does vehicular traffic.
An online company even printed mugs commemorating Bell End, Rowley Regis – a throughway that leads to Mincing Lane.
In a strong appeal to the world to unite against ‘the plague of Islamophobia’, the UN Secretary General without mincing words said Muslims have been an important source of culture, philosophy, scholarship and science for centuries.
Expedia Group’s new CEO isn’t mincing words about one of the company’s biggest challenges: Google’s dual role as a rival in online travel, and a key source of customers through search traffic and paid advertising.
That exercise and without mincing words is, to say the least, sub judice.
That is no mincing words from a guy with incredible status, both within the NFL and also within the Raiders kind of hierarchy.
A prime minister, Julia Gillard, might have likened him to a mincing poodle, but she has gone, defeated, and just about everyone long ago came around to Pyne’s own description of himself: a fellow with a hide as thick as a rhino.
Beto not mincing any words today on : Asked if Joe Biden a return to the past, replies “He is.
She stopped mincing words by mid-October, calling on county executive Brian Hughes to abandon plans to develop the site in an Oct. 15 letter.
The court earlier, while mincing no words, observed that for three days in August 2017 before the expected verdict, the Dera followers were allowed to gather in Panchkula and nothing was done by the state.
There was less mincing of mealy-mothed words among the diplomatic gentlemen and gentleladies.
There were no ‘terf’ cyberwomen righteously zapping transgendered daleks who are mincing about shrieking ‘Exfoliate, exfoliate’.
Without mincing words, the elections gravely exposed our security agencies and not exactly in the brightest form possible.
Arya Stark has spoken, and she's not mincing words.
Mincing no words and not weathering about it, it has never been the same in the party.
Not mincing his words, the 53-year-old Good Morning Britain presenter branded the whole family ‘greedy, narcissistic and repulsive’ as the matriarch clutched her £12,000 Goyard suitcase whilst wearing black sunglasses.
Said Prof Abdulkareem: “Without mincing words, it is a known fact that one of the major problems confronting our dear nation Nigeria, is religious bigotry, which has turned adherents of various faiths against one another.
Common combinations with mincing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- mincing words 12×
- without mincing 7×
- not mincing 3×
- no mincing 2×
- to mincing 2×
- mincing no 2×