Sentence example with the word 'preciosity'

preciosity

affectation, artifice, elegance, exquisiteness, goody-goodness, legalism, overelaboration, overpreciseness, pedantry, precisianism, punctiliousness, scrupulousness

Definition n. the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined

Last update: July 20, 2015


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Though his favourite author was Dryden, whose prose is uniformly manly and simple, and though he had a keen eye for faults of taste in the style of others, Canning had himself a leaning to preciosity and tinsel.   [Please select]

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It suffered inevitably through the influences of a taste, refined it is true, but which already inclined toward mannerisms and preciosity.   [Please select]

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