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How to use nicety in a sentence

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Armado valued himself on the nicety of his skill in taking up quarrels according to the rules of art, and adjusting the ceremonies of the duello.
She accepted that the Secretary of State is not able to judge local factors to a nicety.
Tactically clever and daringly innovative, Hiddink had tuned his wards to a nicety.
The nature of the application with which I am concerned means that I do not need to weigh the variety of competing factors to a nicety.
This may sound a technical nicety, but notice that this activity is the primary activity on derivatives markets.
This confluence happens 100 yards behind Bath railway station, and matches the city's nicety of line.
That's fine, it's no big deal, and it's said as much as a social nicety than with any intent to actually do it.
These sub-heads, which are not all very clearly phrased, should accordingly be construed according to their general sense and without too much nicety of language.
Mr Farage's achievement hitherto was to have made UKIP's intolerant positions appear sufficiently unthreatening to overcome that nicety.
He might say that governing in a minority obliges him to play fast and loose with parliamentary nicety.
This maturing permits to reinforce the nicety and all the aromas of this champagne.
In popular parlance, Epicureanism thus means devotion to pleasure, comfort, and high living, with a certain nicety of style.
The Kiwi settled in Australia, however, timed his challenge to a nicety and with Naren encountering problems with his car, Warren began to consolidate his lead.
He tested out long-time rival Arup Basak's game plan to a nicety and though Basak took the first game of the final at 11-8, it was Raman who had come out stronger.
This makes farm safety a necessity, not a nicety.
But, by diverting attention to a technological nicety, namely the tools used to commit the offence rather than the offence itself, it does tend to trivialize the real offence.
However, it is seen by its critics as a mere abstraction, disconnected from reality, a philosophical nicety detached from the real world of patients and their needs.
The special library does not demand so much a staff trained to stiff nicety in library detail as one that will sense the imminent demand for certain information and have it ready and accessible.
What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty.
A rocket-propelled grenade doesn't have the nicety of a sniper round, but you must admit its effectiveness.
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Ellis was with me, and declares that Hayden has touched me off to a nicety.
But the folding of the flimsy batch on his knee was executed with thoughtful nicety.
But the magistrate was not in a frame of mind to stickle for nicety of expression.
She was gowned, too, with a chic nicety to arouse the envy of all less-fortunate women.
To the college student life is not classified and systematized to a nicety.
If the quantity of coagulant has been calculated to an average nicety, the serum should be just dubiously free from milkiness.
He had gauged the character of his most uncompromising and powerful enemy to a nicety.
Nevertheless he had found time to visit a hairdressing saloon, for he prided himself upon the nicety of his personal appearance.
Avoiding curved backs, he had not to face 240 the intricacies of the nicety of balance in the splat.
Calculating the instant to a nicety, he paid off the sheet and pulled up the tiller.
It was to accomplish this nicety that the principle of the club was found to be so well adapted.
It's the lack of certain things that go with nicety of living that grinds me most.
The latter had a special arrangement by which they could be levelled to a nicety.
There he had built what he called a nest, but what humans, with greater nicety of diction, call a drey.
Selina says it is quite horror to herand I believe I have caught a little of her nicety.
But unfortunately my own nicety, and the nicety of my friends, have made me what I am, an idle, helpless being.
She skirted round the point and calculated her distance to the nicety of a hair-breadth.
Save at the base he matched his leaf surroundings to a nicety.
For to exaggerate with judgment one must begin by measuring with nicety.
With the most painstaking care and nicety, I stood the umbrella up once more, took my hand away, and down it came again.
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