Affectedly dainty or refined.

synonyms: niminy-piminy, prim, twee.

Roget 855: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.    not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial; overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist etc. 577.    stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.    ... show more