niminy-piminy

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Adjective
  • Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp wanted an appropriate goodbye with one Hawkins resident in particular as the sci-fi series concluded last month.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Your fourth tip centers on diet quality, in particular cutting out ultraprocessed foods.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Despite its heavy premise, the movie also has absurdities, among them Conan O’Brien as a judgmental, prissy therapist.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Albee's 1962 play won a Tony Award, and would have also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, if the prissy trustees of Columbia University hadn't overruled the jury.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Soft-sided, worn and loved became important and foot-forming ultrasoft kid leather shoes changed the vibe from prim to cool.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Look to a prim and proper ladylike jacket instead.
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Boost Indoor Humidity Most peppers prefer higher-than-average humidity levels, but some pepper varieties are more finicky about humidity than others.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Wait for a dry, cold day to make the South's most finicky candy—then enjoy each ethereal, sugary bite.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Obviously, fastidious double-entry bookkeeping reduces the margin for error, even in complicated accounts, but more than that, once accounts become commonplace, ordinary people begin to think of the world in terms of accounts.
    Big Think, Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But that was hardly the end of our fastidious, crime-solving genius.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Though not the ones that look like ski masks, but rather dainty knit-and-cashmere pieces that provide warmth around your head and can be layered with any kind of sweater or coat.
    Morgan Evans, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Prices start at only $8 with this two-piece set of dainty lace placemats that look like family heirlooms.
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • LinkedIn's algorithm is choosy.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Known for being among the choosiest of the choosy buildings and the longtime home of Henry Kissinger, whose sprawling duplex, full of green upholstery and black candles — very Sister Parish — has yet to come on the market since his death.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The finical, fanatical, reciprocal chiselling of mind and matter.
    Christian Wiman, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • However, finical institution Citi is the official presale credit card of the headliner engagements, and Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets a week earlier, from Tuesday, May 18 at 10AM PST to Sunday, May 23 at 10 PM PST through the Citi Entertainment program.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 13 May 2021
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“Niminy-piminy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/niminy-piminy. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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