gingerly
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gingerly englanniksi
In a cautious and delicate manner; (very) carefully or cautiously.
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(RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse)
(RQ:Dekker Webster Westward Hoe)
(RQ:Massinger Parliament of Love)
(RQ:Pepys Diary) Sir W. Pen made a formal speech in answer to a question of the King's, whether the lying of the sunk ships in the river would spoil the river. But, Lord! how gingerly he answered it, and with a deal of do that he did not know whether it would be safe as to the enemy to have them taken up, but that doubtless it would be better for the river to have them taken up.
(RQ:Sterne Tristram Shandy)
(quote-web)'' (Classic): ‘(w)’|work=The A.V. Club|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027030554/https://tv.avclub.com/the-simpsons-classic-mr-plow-1798173025|archivedate=27 October 2020|date=3 June 2012|passage=Purchasing a snowplow transforms Simpson|Homer &91;Simpson&93; into a new man. (w)' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M(si) (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family.
(quote-web)" speech and likely no national holiday honoring him.
(quote-book)
Chiefly of dancing or walking: done with small, dainty steps; daintily; also, with excessive delicacy; affectedly, mincingly.
(RQ:Dekker Webster Westward Hoe) She is ſuch an intycing ſhee-vvitch, carrying the charmes of your Ievvels about her. Oh!
(RQ:Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge)
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(quote-book); Cold Equations|seriesvolume=book 1|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Pocket Books|year=2012|section=part 3 (Elegy)|isbn=978-1-4516-5075-4|passage=Several gingerly taps on her console fired clusters of modified probes into the maelstrom of the gas giant’s atmosphere.
Often of a person or the way they move: dainty, delicate; also, excessively delicate; affected, mincing.