dainty

Converse of object

• grow: In time these fellows grew dainty in their tastes, and only infested boats that had an established reputation for setting good tables.

Adjective modifier

• other: They usually consist of small amounts of fish, dressed cold vegetables and other dainty relishes.

Modifies a noun

• dish: Katie, on doctors ' orders, put him on a diet of dainty dishes which they felt would cure him.
• flower: Small tubular creamy pink dainty flowers appear in early summer on tall stems held well above the leaves.
• shoe: Her head was bent, and with the toe of her dainty shoe she toyed with a passing snail.
• foot: She ran as fast as her dainty feet could carry her.
• hand: You can't play with edged tools forever without cutting those dainty hands.
• thing: Nellie almost clothed the girls, she was always sewing and knitting for them, making dainty things from practically nothing.

Modifying Another Word

• very: These fish followed us in schools and supplied our table with very dainty flesh.
• so: And there are some that are not so dainty as well.
• rather: The bangs are longer and louder, and Routh is rather daintier on his feet than superheroes tend to be.
• quite: Small piggy eyes, long, long faces elongated by a beard but then a strong lithe body balanced on quite dainty legs.
• not: It is proper mug size, not dainty like so much bone china pieces, and at a very reasonable price.
• too: The drinks were fine, tho the thin glassware was too dainty for my rugged sensibilities.

Used with adjective complement

• make: She that makes dainty, She Ile sweare hath Cornes: am I come neare ye now?