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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
manicured
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hand
▪ It's the sound of perfectly manicured hands striking crisp Gucci polo shirts.
▪ Well manicured hands with a carefully toned nail varnish are much more attractive.
lawn
▪ A gravel drive swept between manicured lawns to the portico of the imposing Edwardian house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A combination of homely suburbs and hot sunshine; unblemished beaches and boundless bush; manicured parks and tropical shrubbery.
▪ A gravel drive swept between manicured lawns to the portico of the imposing Edwardian house.
▪ A spacious patch of manicured grass for crowds to gather.
▪ Both progressed smoothly from sun-lanced church to manicured crematorium.
▪ Her perfectly manicured finger points to a name on the Illinois roster.
▪ It's the sound of perfectly manicured hands striking crisp Gucci polo shirts.
▪ Perfect manicured fingernails, dark and shapely, ladylike.
▪ They were too perfect, too well manicured.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manicured

Manicure \Man"i*cure\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Manicured; p. pr. & vb. n. Manicuring.]

  1. To care for (the hands and nails); to care for the hands and nails of; to do manicure work.

  2. to trim carefully and meticulously; as, to manicure a lawn.

Wiktionary
manicured

vb. (en-past of: manicure)

Usage examples of "manicured".

Inside the walls, the grounds were carefully manicured, not a shrub or a leaf out of place, not a blade of grass poking a little higher than the blades around it.

For a moment he studied the slim grace of her fingers, the delicate pink of her manicured nails, and a slight smile moved his lips.

A tricycle was parked next to the first step, and a red ball lay under a manicured shrub, but most of the cheerful tangle of toys was in the fenced backyard that surrounded the pool.

The lawn was immaculately manicured, the hedges sculptured, the rose beds perfectly tended.

The club was a sprawling one-story cedar-and-rock affair, with manicured grounds and a soothing atmosphere.

Before, the grass had always been neatly manicured, and though the yard wasn’t overgrown with weeds now, it still showed a certain roughness that said it had been over a week since the grass had been cut.

She curled her skinny little body into a tighter knot, hugging her knees to her chest as she stared stolidly out the window at the manicured lawn of Davencourt, her grandmother's home.

PARRISH SAWYER murmured, leaning back in his chair and tapping his immaculately manicured nails against the wooden arm.

He looked completely civilized and cosmopolitan, a gentleman to his manicured fingertips.

This small country cemetery was prettier and more peaceful than the large, manicured "garden of rest" where Jeanette was buried.

From their car radios came a stream of static and staccato messages that she couldn't understand, and the rotating car lights made the manicured lawn look like a weird, deserted disco.

Milla’s nails were always manicured, and not once in the eleven years she’d known her had Susanna seen Milla when her toenails weren’t polished.

Slowly he hung up, hit the button that invited him to make another call, and started punching in numbers with a blunt, nicely manicured fingertip.

She put her slender, manicured hands in the pockets of her tailored black slacks.

And there would be no way to hide the official tail on her parents' manicured, sweeping drive.