downcast vs mincing

downcast

adj
  • Feeling despondent. 

  • Looking downwards. 

verb
  • To cast from supertype to subtype. 

  • To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. 

noun
  • A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. 

  • A cast from supertype to subtype. 

mincing

adj
  • Affectedly dainty. 

noun
  • The act by which something is minced. 

  • Affected dainty speech or movement. 

How often have the words downcast and mincing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )