noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
legal
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There are some legal niceties attendant upon this definition with which it is fortunately not necessary to deal in the present outline.
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Without delving into the legal niceties too deeply, the procedure of a public inquiry generally takes the following form.
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If Northgate ignored the bureaucratic niceties of prospecting licences, it also ignored the legal niceties of land ownership and trespass.
social
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Young babies have no knowledge of the social niceties which will thenceforward determine their social response.
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Clarac was used to social nicety .
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On one level the social niceties ground on, the minutiae of dress and behaviour observed and chattered over.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The car includes such niceties as a cassette deck and bucket seats.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It did help that in those years Janir cared nothing for household niceties.
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Occasions arise when there is no time for niceties, and Schubert was usually to the fore at such times.
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Records of clothing and the other necessities and niceties of life are scanty.
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That way, constitutional niceties will be respected.
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This is a nicety , perhaps with no practical consequences.
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Tourists observe the niceties of correct dress while viewing the Matterhorn.
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Trade missions, diplomatic niceties, hurried journeys between here and Moscow, the lot.