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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Of high value or worth, or seemingly regarded as such.
- Regarded with love or tenderness.
- (pejorative) Treated with too much reverence.
- (pejorative) Contrived to be cute or charming.
Substantiv
- Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
Exempel
- People are a good thing, the most precious resource in a rich economy, so the progressive-minded feel. Only misanthropists disagree or the dottier Malthusians who send green-ink tweets deploring any state assistance for child-rearing.
- The crown had many precious gemstones. This building work needs site access, and tell the city council that I don't care about a few lorry tyre ruts across their precious grass verge.
- My precious daughter is to marry.
- He spent hours painting the eyes of the portrait, which his fellow artists regarded as a bit precious.
- In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.
- She sat down with the dogs in her lap. "I won't neglect you for any one, will I, my preciouses?"
- “It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?”
- There is precious little we can do.
- It isn't fair, my precious to ask us what it's got in its nasty pockets.
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