| Excessively quaint |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
05 Jul 2025 |
| Affectedly cute |
The Sun Mini |
02 Jul 2025 |
| Excessively cute townee? No, no - wrong! (4) |
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| Dainty and coy (4) |
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| Overly precious |
New York Times |
22 Jun 2025 |
| Affectedly cutesy |
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| Overly pretty (4) |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Jun 2025 |
| Sentimental and terribly wet, note |
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| Preciously dainty |
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| Annoyingly cute (4) |
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| Irritatingly cute (4) |
The Guardian Quick |
29 May 2025 |
| Excessively quaint |
Puzzler Backwords |
27 May 2025 |
| Quaint |
The Telegraph Quick |
26 May 2025 |
| Overly cute |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
24 May 2025 |
| Pretty short sound made by a bird |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
23 May 2025 |
| Short bird-call is dainty (4) |
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| Ultimately just small and cute (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
03 May 2025 |
| Sweet, possibly wet cigarette end (4) |
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| Finally just small and cute (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
23 Apr 2025 |
| Just so cute |
LA Times Daily |
12 Apr 2025 |
| Sweet, pretty |
Mirror Tea Time |
09 Apr 2025 |
| Affectedly quaint part of ancient weekly (4) |
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| Quaint, pretty or sentimental (4) |
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| Excessively cutesy |
USA Today |
29 Mar 2025 |
| Affectedly quaint |
The Telegraph Quick |
18 Mar 2025 |
| Affected (coll) |
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| Like tourist-town shops, often |
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| Quaint note about cruciverbalists |
The Telegraph Toughie |
26 Feb 2025 |
| Dainty flower that's died off |
The Times Sunday Cryptic |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Excessively dainty or quaint (4) |
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| Oh-so-precious |
New York Times |
16 Feb 2025 |
| Excessively quaint |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Primarily treacly, tiny, overly pretty |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Feb 2025 |
| Cute internet post missing last character (4) |
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| Overly cutesy |
USA Today |
03 Feb 2025 |
| Small and sweet |
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| Affected or excessively dainty (4) |
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| Excessively quaint |
Puzzler Backwords |
15 Jan 2025 |
| In between being small and sweet (4) |
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| Overly precious |
The Times Sunday Concise |
05 Jan 2025 |
| Overly cutesy, to a Brit |
Universal |
14 Dec 2024 |
| Last week's word for pretty- pretty (4) |
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| Pretentiously pretty (colloq) (4) |
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| Like Wes Anderson's visual style |
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| Cutesy |
The Telegraph Quick |
25 Nov 2024 |
| Cloyingly quaint |
The Times Concise |
22 Nov 2024 |
| Quaint |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
19 Nov 2024 |
| Overly cutesy |
Commuter |
16 Nov 2024 |
| And cute in between calls (4) |
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| Cutesy |
Commuter |
25 Oct 2024 |
| What to find a cute bwanch on? (4) |
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| An adjective, representing a child's pronunciation of a word for delightful or sugary, that means overly pretty, quaint, saccharine or syrupy (4) |
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| Cute to an annoying degree |
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| Face of toddler, small and cutesy |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Oct 2024 |
| Affectedly cute (4) |
Puzzler |
28 Sep 2024 |
| Story related in Beijing has little weight (4) |
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| Finally just small and cute (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
11 Sep 2024 |
| Some in between are quaint (4) |
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| Most weeks, get too sweet (4) |
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| Excessively sentimental, sweet or pretty (4) |
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| Last touch of paint on miniature is pretty |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
28 Aug 2024 |
| Excessively dainty (4) |
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| Quaint sound of bird cut short (4) |
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| Quaint |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
28 Jul 2024 |
| Sweet, pretty |
Mirror Tea Time |
22 Jul 2024 |
| Sentimentally cute (4) |
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| Affectedly pretty |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Jul 2024 |
| Excessively sweet having little time in the lead (4) |
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| Cutesy |
Commuter |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Quaint sports supporter keeps wicket (4) |
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| Affectedly or excessively quaint (4) |
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| Final parts of chat show were quite sentimental |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
26 Jun 2024 |
| Tim initially tiny and cute |
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| Excessively quaint |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Jun 2024 |
| Pretentiously sentimental? Time to go! |
The Sun Two Speed |
07 Jun 2024 |
| Soppy message left unfinished |
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| Dainty, precious (4) |
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| High-pitched bird sound |
Newsday |
16 May 2024 |
| Excessively quaint or sentimental (4) |
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| Cutesy |
Commuter |
17 Apr 2024 |
| Last week was somewhat affected (4) |
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| Excessively sentimental |
Mirror Tea Time |
14 Apr 2024 |
| Affectedly cute, to Brits |
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| Being cute, we replace the centre part in time |
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| Sounding like a bird, not half quaint (4) |
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| Overly sentimental (inf) (4) |
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| Excessively quaint |
Puzzler Backwords |
12 Mar 2024 |
| Excessively sentimental letter captivating wife (4) |
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| Affectedly dainty ? as in "The Go-Between" |
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| This could be sweet but not small? |
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| Finally just small and cute (4) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
23 Feb 2024 |
| In sweets, the centre can be awfully nice! (4) |
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| Dainty |
The Guardian Quick |
20 Feb 2024 |
| Quaint cloth is shortened (4) |
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| Affectedly cute |
Mirror Tea Time |
08 Feb 2024 |
| Pretentiously cute |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Jan 2024 |
| Affectedly cute |
Mirror Tea Time |
17 Jan 2024 |
| Quaint, cute (4) |
Puzzler |
15 Jan 2024 |
| Charming message abbreviated (4) |
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| Affected material finally deleted |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jan 2024 |
| Excessively quaint |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jan 2024 |
| Excessively cute and sentimental |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Jan 2024 |
| Affectedly sweet or cute |
The Times Concise |
28 Dec 2023 |
| Preciously cutesy |
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| Affectedly dainty or quaint in the first weekend (4) |
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| Bijou (4) |
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| Excessively quaint |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Nov 2023 |
| Precious little time — almost seven days! |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
31 Oct 2023 |
| Overly cute |
New York Times Mini |
29 Oct 2023 |
| Clothing style with retro and preppy influences |
New York Times |
13 Aug 2023 |
| Too cute |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jul 2023 |
| Sentimental social media message cut short |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Apr 2023 |
| Exaggeratedly quaint |
The Times Concise |
14 Apr 2023 |
| Most of what is posted on social media is precious |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Mar 2023 |
| Precious time? Minute, perhaps |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Mar 2023 |
| 3 last seen in coat pocket |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 Feb 2023 |
| Cute, cutely |
New York Times |
01 Feb 2023 |
| Affectedly dainty |
LA Times Daily |
22 Jan 2023 |
| Cutesy to a fault |
New York Times |
14 Jan 2023 |
| Short message online is excessively sentimental |
The Times Cryptic |
19 Dec 2022 |
| Oh-so-precious |
LA Times Daily |
18 Dec 2022 |
| Too precious |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Dec 2022 |
| Overly cute |
USA Today |
08 Oct 2022 |
| A bit too cute? |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Sep 2022 |
| Quaint |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Sep 2022 |
| Section of account we excise as over-sentimental |
The Times Cryptic |
02 Sep 2022 |
| Excessively quaint |
The Times Concise |
27 Aug 2022 |
| Excessively quaint |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Jun 2022 |
| __ pop: Belle and Sebastian genre |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jun 2022 |
| Affectedly refined |
The Guardian Quick |
17 May 2022 |
| Affectedly pretty |
The Times Concise |
13 Mar 2022 |
| Affectedly; sentimentally pretty |
The Guardian Speedy |
06 Feb 2022 |
| Affected material finally deleted |
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| Too cute by half |
USA Today |
27 Dec 2021 |
| Overly precious |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Nov 2021 |
| Quaint boiled sweets unwrapped |
The Guardian Cryptic |
24 Nov 2021 |
| Quaint boiled sweets unwrapped |
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| Sentimental sports supporter keeping wicket |
The Times Cryptic |
15 Nov 2021 |
| Cutesy short message on social media |
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| Too cute, to Brits |
Wall Street Journal |
11 Sep 2021 |
| Excessively quaint |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Sep 2021 |
| Excessively sentimental message? Not entirely |
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| Dainty |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Jul 2021 |
| Overly cutesy |
USA Today |
01 Jul 2021 |
| Affected material finally deleted |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jun 2021 |
| Excessively quaint |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jun 2021 |
| Sentimental, short message on social medium |
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| Excessively pretty |
The Times Concise |
26 Mar 2021 |
| Too cute, on the Thames |
New York Times |
23 Mar 2021 |
| Dainty |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Feb 2021 |
| Overly sentimental: time to go! |
The Sun Two Speed |
30 Jan 2021 |
| Sentimental sports supporter keeping wicket |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Oct 2020 |
| Precious, to a Brit |
New York Times |
18 Oct 2020 |
| Oh-so-precious |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Oct 2020 |
| Quaint |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Oct 2020 |
| Insipidly sweet short message broken off |
|
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| Sentimental message cut short |
|
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| Outwit cheeky central characters – cute! |
|
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| It's sentimental to most of Twitter |
Irish Times Crosaire |
15 Jun 2020 |
| Affected material daughter ignored |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
11 Apr 2020 |
| Sentimental sports supporter keeping wicket |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Mar 2020 |
| Post on social media that's short and sweet |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Feb 2020 |
| Overly sentimental sports supporter keeps wicket |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Dec 2019 |
| Excessively quaint (informal) |
The Sun Two Speed |
11 Dec 2019 |
| Excessively precious, to a Brit |
LA Times Daily |
02 Nov 2019 |
| Excessively precious, to a Brit |
The Washington Post |
02 Nov 2019 |
| Precious box, say, Republican set aside for wife |
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| High-pitched bird sound |
Newsday |
30 Aug 2019 |
| So precious, in Penzance |
The Washington Post |
23 Jun 2019 |
| So precious, in Penzance |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jun 2019 |
| Cute social media post cut |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jun 2019 |
| Short message, rather quaint |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 May 2019 |
| Pretty short message: 'Time flies' |
|
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| Affectedly dainty or refined |
Irish Times Simplex |
24 Jan 2019 |
| Affected material finally cut |
|
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| So precious, in Penzance |
|
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| Excessively precious, to a Brit |
|
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| Saccharine indie sensibility |
The New Yorker |
31 Dec 2018 |
| Model No.1 too pretty, perhaps |
|
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| Excessively or affectedly quaint |
The Guardian Speedy |
02 Dec 2018 |
| Overly cute, to a Brit |
Universal |
16 Nov 2018 |
| Pretty short presidential message |
|
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| Primarily treacly, tiny, overly pretty |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Aug 2018 |
| Sentimentally sweet |
The Guardian Speedy |
07 Jul 2018 |
| Buffet we enjoyed, including sweet |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 Jul 2018 |
| Sentimentally pretty wife wearing casual top |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Jun 2018 |
| Affectedly precious |
Wall Street Journal |
16 May 2018 |
| Excessively sentimental message shortened |
|
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| Precious to excess |
Wall Street Journal |
31 Mar 2018 |
| Mawkish material lacking depth |
|
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| Dainty model, little |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Mar 2018 |
| Quaint, cute |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Mar 2018 |
| Pretentiously sentimental? Time to go! |
|
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| Affectedly quaint |
New York Times |
21 Jan 2018 |
| Mawkish material lacking depth |
|
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| Affectedly quaint |
|
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| Precious to excess |
|
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| Affectedly precious |
|
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| Overly cute, to a Brit |
|
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| Primarily treacly, tiny, over-pretty |
|
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| Sentimental social media message one character short |
The Telegraph Toughie |
01 Nov 2017 |
| Precious little deeper than bottom of pit |
|
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| Terribly winsome, excessively endearing, just for starters |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Sep 2017 |
| Rather too pretty cut flower |
|
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| Pretty detailed message? |
The Times Cryptic |
31 Jul 2017 |
| Pretty detailed message? |
|
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| Affectedly cute |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Jun 2017 |
| Affectedly dainty |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Jun 2017 |
| Overly precious, in Portsmouth |
LA Times Daily |
13 May 2017 |
| Overly precious, in Portsmouth |
The Washington Post |
13 May 2017 |
| Model - small and quaint |
|
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| Online message that's short and sweet |
|
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| ___ pop (music genre featuring simple, catchy melodies) |
New York Times |
06 Apr 2017 |
| Precious part of a perfect weekend |
|
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| Cute |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Jan 2017 |
| Sentimentally pretty |
The Telegraph Quick |
05 Jan 2017 |
| Overly precious, in Portsmouth |
|
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| ___ pop (music genre featuring simple, catchy melodies) |
|
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| Peg, little wife held to be quaint |
|
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| So, so cute |
New York Times |
30 Nov 2016 |
| Too precious, in Portsmouth |
LA Times Daily |
25 Nov 2016 |
| Excessively quaint |
The Times Concise |
22 Nov 2016 |
| Famous model, tiny and rather too cute |
The Times Cryptic |
21 Oct 2016 |
| Famous model, tiny and rather too cute |
|
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| Affectedly dainty |
The Guardian Quick |
16 Sep 2016 |
| Precious time with two sweethearts? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Sep 2016 |
| Affectedly dainty sound made by small bird, mostly |
|
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| Little time to start 15 Across |
|
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| Overly cute, to a Brit |
LA Times Daily |
20 Jul 2016 |
| Affectedly quaint, short message |
|
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| What we eat that's sweet |
|
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| Brief comment on website is quaint |
The Telegraph Toughie |
17 May 2016 |
| Cutesy, in Cheshire |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
22 Apr 2016 |
| Affectedly cute |
The Washington Post |
01 Apr 2016 |
| With sun going down, sweet time's ahead -- sweet indeed! |
The Telegraph Toughie |
15 Jan 2016 |
| Cutesy, in Cheshire |
|
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| So, so cute |
|
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| Overly cute, to a Brit |
|
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| Overly sentimental sports supporter keeps wicket |
|
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| Sickly sweet |
The Guardian Speedy |
15 Nov 2015 |
| Too cute, in Chelsea |
LA Times Daily |
02 Aug 2015 |
| Dainty microblog message was cut short |
|
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| Most of the message is pretty pretentious |
Irish Times Crosaire |
19 May 2015 |
| Quaint material left by duke |
The Telegraph Toughie |
24 Apr 2015 |
| Oh-so-dainty, in Devonshire |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
17 Apr 2015 |
| Sentimental |
The Telegraph Quick |
27 Feb 2015 |
| Too cute, in Chelsea |
|
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| Oh-so-dainty, in Devonshire |
|
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| Subgenre for the Decemberists (or any other band that uses the word "palanquin" in their lyrics, probably) |
|
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| Affected the way engineers exercised for starters |
|
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| Precious little time to go |
|
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| Quaint sound of a bird with no tail |
|
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| Too cute |
|
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| Oh-so-dainty, in Devon |
|
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| Root removed from flower, too dainty |
|
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| Pretty short message? |
|
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| Precious time with baby |
|
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| Overly precious |
|
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| Affectedly whimsical |
|
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| Oh-so-quaint, in England |
|
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| Affectedly quaint, in Colchester |
|
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| Overly precious |
|
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| Affectedly quaint, in Colchester |
|
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| Overly precious, to a Brit |
|
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| Affectedly dainty, to Brits |
|
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| Overly precious, to a Brit |
|
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| Oh-so-dainty |
|
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| Overly dainty |
|
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| Affectedly dainty, to Brits |
|
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| Too cute, in Cambridge |
|
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| Affectedly dainty, to a Brit |
|
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| Overly precious |
|
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| Cutesy, in London |
|
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| Overly cute |
|
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| Affectedly quaint, across the pond |
|
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| Affectedly cute |
|
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| Hardly macho, in Manchester |
|
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| Hardly macho, in Manchester |
|
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| Affectedly quaint, to a Brit |
|
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| Affectedly dainty |
|
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| Cutesy, to a Brit |
|
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| Affectedly dainty, in Dover |
|
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| Bird sound |
|
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| Affectedly dainty, in Dover |
|
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| Affectedly quaint, to a Brit |
|
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| Dainty in Devon |
|
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| A bit too-too, to a Brit |
|
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| Affectedly quaint, to a Brit |
|
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| ___ pop, music genre since the 1980s |
|
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| Precious, to a Brit |
|
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| Dainty, in Devon |
|
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| Overly precious |
|
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| Oh-so-quaint, in England |
|
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| Affectedly dainty, in Derby |
|
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| Dainty, to a Brit |
|
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| Affectedly dainty, in England |
|
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| Affectedly quaint, in England |
|
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| Overly nice: Brit. |
|
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| Bird's cry |
|
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| Oh-so-dainty |
|
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| Overly precious, to a Brit |
|
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| Sentimental sports supporter keeping wicket |
|
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| Dainty |
|
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| Overly precious, to a Briton |
|
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| Piping sound |
|
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| Cutesy, to a Brit |
|
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| Flyway sound |
|
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| Shrill, piping note |
|
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| Small bird's sound |
|
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| Bird sound |
|
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| Piping note |
|
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| Bird call |
|
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| Bird sound |
|
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| Aviary sound |
|
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| Thin, piping note |
|
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| Nest sound |
|
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| Bird's "word" |
|
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| Bird cry |
|
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| Flyway sound |
|
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| Cheep's cousin |
|
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| Shrill note |
|
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| Sound from a nest |
|
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| Piping sound |
|
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| Affectedly dainty |
|
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| Piping note of a small bird. |
|
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| Shrill note. |
|
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| Oh-so-dainty |
|
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| Canary note. |
|
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| It "gwows in a fowest." |
|
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| Bird note. |
|
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| Bird's piping note. |
|
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| Thin piping note. |
|
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| Thin, piping note. |
|
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| Sound of small birds. |
|
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| Bird's piping sound. |
|
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| Overly precious |
|
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| Bird's note. |
|
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| Avian sound. |
|
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| Chirping note. |
|
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| Shrill piping note. |
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