niminy-piminy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for niminy-piminy
Adjective
  • Black women in particular have been using tools like flexi rods for generations.
    Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • One fire unit in particular specialized in collapsed structures.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Some of that’s changing times, some of that is because a not-insignificant portion of W.A.S.P. fans are prissy suburbanites themselves.
    Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Victoria prefers things prim and respectable.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
  • This place defines prim and proper.
    Amanda Nguyen, TIME, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But our biggest gripe with the classic Cuisinart design is how finicky these elements can be.
    Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The conditions that can foster a super bloom are finicky and delicate.
    Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Zink, who has lived in and around that city for many years, catalogs the ghosts that haunt it with a voice that is cool and fastidious and possessed of a screwball comic sensibility rooted in pain.
    New York Times, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The exhaustingly prolific Kidman stars as a fastidious suburban teacher/wife/mom who suspects her optometrist hubby (Macfadyen) is hiding something from her and enlists the help of a cute high school shop teacher (Bernal) to expose those secrets in the very strange town of Holland, Michigan.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • One is a dog, one is a daintier version of Reynolds himself, one is a Lady Deadpool, and another is emblazoned with the green colors and red dragon of the Welsh flag.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 July 2024
  • This Diamond Initial Necklace from Sarah O is dainty, beautiful, sparkly, and pairs super well with other pieces.
    Victoria Montalti, refinery29.com, 10 Jan. 2024
Adjective
  • While tariffs may lead to consumers being more choosy, Link said the overall macroeconomic picture still looks positive, bolstered by lower interest rates, a steady job market and strong consumer savings.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
  • And by that time in her career, Salonga could be choosy.
    Robert Ito, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The finical, fanatical, reciprocal chiselling of mind and matter.
    Christian Wiman, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
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“Niminy-piminy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/niminy-piminy. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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