3 adjectives to describe mincing

He performed the suitable incantation, putting this and that together in the manner formerly employed by the Thessalian witches and sorcerers, and he cried aloud a very ancient if indecent charm from the old Latin, saying, as Queen Stultitia had told him to say, without any mock-modest mincing of words: Dictum est antiqua sandalio mulier habitavit, Quae multos pueros habuit tum ut potuit nullum Quod faciundum erat cognoscere.

A powdered beauty minces to the door.

Les fers sont légers, très-minces, allongés sur les talons, et plus amincis encore que vers la pince.

3 adjectives to describe  mincing