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Nice   /naɪs/  /nis/   Listen
Nice

adjective
(compar. nicer; superl. nicest)
1.
Pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance.  "Nice manners" , "A nice dress" , "A nice face" , "A nice day" , "Had a nice time at the party" , "The corn and tomatoes are nice today"
2.
Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous.  Synonym: decent.  "A nice girl"
3.
Done with delicacy and skill.  Synonym: skillful.  "A job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer" , "A nice shot"
4.
Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted.  Synonyms: dainty, overnice, prissy, squeamish.  "So squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
5.
Exhibiting courtesy and politeness.  Synonyms: courteous, gracious.
noun
1.
A city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera.



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"Nice" Quotes from Famous Books



... With the same cold daintiness and skill it can devise exquisite tortures, eternities of incredible pain, that Torquemada never glimpsed. And voluptuous is your hand, nice in its sense of touch. Delicately it can caress a quivering skin, softly it can glide over golden thighs.... Bilitis ...
— Profiles from China • Eunice Tietjens
... greater than she would experience, even were she more guilty, and with me. Then, at least, she would have some one to soothe and sympathise in whatever she might endure. To one so pure as Emily, the full crime is already incurred. It is not the innocent who insist upon that nice line of morality between the thought and the action: such distinctions require reflection, experience, deliberation, prudence of head, or coldness of heart; these are the traits, not of the guileless, but of the worldly. It is the reflections, not the ...
— Falkland, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... had to hold to his ear whether he liked it or not. The children there stayed most of the time in a bare room they called "the dungeon," with a big ragged fireplace in it. They, had only bread and butter and rice to eat, while Mrs. Pipchin had tea and mutton chops and buttered toast and other nice things. ...
— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives
... province, to prosecute Delisle for some offence or other which it was alleged he had committed. But this person, in his anger against him, having told me that he had himself been several times the bearer of gold and silver to the goldsmiths of Nice, Aix, and Avignon, which had been transmuted by Delisle from lead and iron, I began to waver a little in my opinions respecting him. I afterwards met Delisle at the house of one of my friends. To please me, the family asked Delisle to operate before me, to ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
... may revel day after day in new "finds" among its valleys and hill-sides. The rural quiet of the place delivers one from the fashionable bustle of livelier watering-places, from the throng of gorgeous equipages that pour along the streets of Nice, or from picnics with a host of flunkeys uncorking ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green


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