He still had his bald spots, but the fur that he did have cleaned up nice. Kate DiCamillo
In fact, the action is part of what made the findings redundant. The action mattered because it has, for the past two years, forced Microsoft to play nice. [=to behave nicely; to be cooperative and unaggressive in dealing with others] Gary Rivlin
Bipartisanship may also be elusive if it means a hostile GOP majority has to play nice with a President it has tried to kick out of office. Amy Borrus et al.
correct usually implies freedom from fault or error.
correct answers
socially correct dress
accurate implies fidelity to fact or truth attained by exercise of care.
an accurate description
exact stresses a very strict agreement with fact, standard, or truth.
exact measurements
precise adds to exact an emphasis on sharpness of definition or delimitation.
precise calibration
nice stresses great precision and delicacy of adjustment or discrimination.
makes nice distinctions
right is close to correct but has a stronger positive emphasis on conformity to fact or truth rather than mere absence of error or fault.
the right thing to do
Example Sentences
Adjective I hope you all had a nice time. It's so nice to see you again. It's nice to be back home. It's nice to know that you're all right. It would be nice to try something different. We had a very nice dinner. “Hello, my name is Sara.” “It's nice to meet you, Sara.” It's nice to see you, Luis. How have you been? She wears the nicest clothes. He looks nice in his new suit. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
But a nice, simple start for a quarterback who simply took what was there and played his role. Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2017 And there’s a nice jumping off point here in the numbers that were presented to the general assembly in Manhattan this week, and that The MMQB obtained. Albert Breer, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017 In southern Ohio, the triple nickel-Route 555-is a nice, long, windy road. Grant Segall, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017 The cod taco was unexpectedly and deliciously spicy with a nice, lingering after-burn.Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017 And Landon executes some nice, albeit arbitrary stylistic flourishes that draw attention to the filmmaking process. Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 25 Oct. 2017 Our teacher is a nice, relaxed guy who tells the class to get onstage for a warm-up exercise and asks us to name our favorite movie. Katie Sharer, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 Oct. 2017 Must be nice to go through life as a billionaire dreamer. Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 2 Nov. 2017 Crushing your own spices is nice, but we like a finer consistency too. Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 31 Oct. 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
Middle English, foolish, wanton, from Anglo-French, silly, simple, from Latin nescius ignorant, from nescire not to know — more at nescience