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Friday, September 24, 2004

Nice!

Apparently I'm nice!

So I heard from a reliable source last night, I had the Smoking Man over to my place for chats and deluxe mashed potato. He repeated the opinion of someone who had met me last weekend. I was a bit miffed. Nice! What kind of description is that! Doesn't sound very interesting, but on checking out the online dictionary I wonder if he meant the obsolete version!

Nice

  • Pleasing and agreeable in nature: had a nice time.
  • Having a pleasant or attractive appearance: a nice dress; a nice face.
  • Exhibiting courtesy and politeness: a nice gesture.
  • Of good character and reputation; respectable.
  • Overdelicate or fastidious; fussy.
  • Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle: a nice distinction; a nice sense of style.
  • Done with delicacy and skill: a nice bit of craft.
  • Used as an intensive with and: nice and warm.

Obsolete

  • a. Wanton; profligate: "For when mine hours/Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives/Of me for jests" (Shakespeare).
  • b. Affectedly modest; coy: "Ere . . . /The nice Morn on th' Indian steep,/From her cabin'd loop-hole peep" (John Milton).

I think I will go for the 'Done with delicacy and skill: a nice bit of craft ' option, if given the choice!

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