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Definition of Niceties
1. nicety [n] - See also: nicety
Lexicographical Neighbors of Niceties
Literary usage of Niceties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... something easier for an offender to baffle the dictionary than the Penal Code:
for the former Is perplexed with verbal niceties and shades of meaning, ..."
2. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"An indictment charged " that Mary A"^ Osf Somerton, on a day and at a place named,
being then and technical • r niceties. there servant to one Joseph ..."
3. Adventure Guide to Bermuda by Blair Howard (2004)
"register and pay by the hour - anywhere from $6 to $15, depending on the establishment.
The niceties ..."
4. Biographia Dramatica: Or, A Companion to the Playhouse: Containing by David Erskine Baker, Isaac Reed, Stephen Jones (1812)
"GRE man, are; that there was a reserve in his behaviour too nearly resembling
fastidiousness; and that he was apt to indulge himself in such modish^niceties ..."
5. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"There were no niceties of taste to be considered, so the half-cooked and badly
smoked flesh was snatched from the fire and eaten with no more decorum than ..."
6. An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1827)
"... skilled in the knowledge of the Athenian law, and in all the niceties of
Grecian antiquity. The text in the edition before ' I hope you will not let him ..."
7. The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and by Edward R. Carter (1894)
"Here Mr. Perry constantly keeps on hand a bountiful, fresh, palatable supply of
food, which satisfies the taste of the most epicurean; also niceties and ..."
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