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Rigid Insistence On Nicety Crossword Clue

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noun

• scrupulous or exaggerated insistence on purity or correctness (especially in language)

44%7Insistence or insistence
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42%10 Demonstrations of nicety
noun

• a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage

• the quality of nice

• the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze

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