The word 'nicety' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is precise or exact, often in an emotionally charged context. For example, "The professor was impressed by the student's attention to every nicety of the assignment."
"Training requirement", says the green paper hopefully, but that nicety must surely vanish in the wash: the air-traffic controller whom the paper instances needs fitness and concentration to do the job, not just to be trained for it.
Tesco had been slow to realise that its customers were losing enthusiasm for huge out-of-town stores and were switching to online shopping and to discount stores such as Aldi and Lidl.Seen through this prism, a write-off of assets is not merely an accounting nicety.
Sweet-toothed, and currently mighty aggrieved, Britons appreciate the nicety: a Cadbury's Creme Egg, a beloved national treat, isn't a Cadbury's Creme Egg unless it has been made with Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate.A revelation that the egg's American owner, Mondelez International, is meddling with the recipe perfected by Cadbury, a British confectioner, has therefore provoked outrage.
Mr Farage's achievement hitherto was to have made UKIP's intolerant positions appear sufficiently unthreatening to overcome that nicety.
He might say that governing in a minority obliges him to play fast and loose with parliamentary nicety.
The education department claims this is a legal nicety, but it is one that allows Labour opponents of the bill to argue that they have got their way.
In popular parlance, Epicureanism thus means devotion to pleasure, comfort, and high living, with a certain nicety of style.
Menander's nicety of touch and skill at comedy in a light vein is clearly evident in the Dyscolus in the character of the gruff misanthrope Knemon, while the subtle clash and contrast of character and ethical principle in such plays as Perikeiromenē (interesting for its sympathetic treatment of the conventionally boastful soldier) and Second Adelphoe constitute perhaps his greatest achievement.
The Government must not just write reports and accidentally miss them out due to worrying about diplomatic nicety, it should hold them to account.
The French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, was dispatched to Tbilisi on the Sunday as he initiated a shuttle diplomacy between Georgia and Russia without the usual diplomatic nicety of securing an EU mandate.
Go to number 56-58 Am Grossen Wannsee, a plush villa in a leafy lakeside suburb of Berlin, and you can still wander through the place where the worst atrocity in human history was planned, agreed, minuted – and signed off with every bureaucratic nicety.
