nicey-nicey

• nicey-nice, nicey nicey, nicy-nicy

nicey-nicey (comparative more nicey-nicey, superlative most nicey-nicey)

1. (informal) Nice, especially in an impotent or insincere fashion.
   • 1987, Robert Shapiro, The Explorer Race, →ISBN, page 323:

     Things have not always been so nicey-nicey in the Pleiades. They blew up a planet; they had some negative energy, and they said, "We're never going to experience that negativity again. We are going to banish it!"

   • 1988, Arlene Raven, Cassandra L. Langer, Joanna Frueh, Feminist Art Criticism: an Anthology, →ISBN, page 163:

     Choosing to be ignorant is choosing to be nicey-nicey. The opposite of a nicey-nicey is a bitch, who does bite (take hold of an issue), rip (attack a problem without delay), and snarl (use threatening language).

   • 1997, John Rowan, Healing the Male Psyche: Therapy as Initiation, →ISBN, page 145:

     One answer seemed to be the idea of having a nicey-nicey penis, which would never do anyone any harm. But the nicey-nicey penis seemed too sweet, too totally determined by being the very opposite of the bad penis, like two ends of a line.