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Meanings of shapely in anglès

Having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape.

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Examples for "unshapely"
Examples for "unshapely"
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But we were yet rough and unshapely; not fit for heaven.
Making the Most of Life
2
If they are unshapely, unhappy changes in her fortune will displace ardent hopes.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
3
One could see unshapely bulges where women did the housekeeping within.
The Eye of Zeitoon
4
A black, unshapely mass was moving swiftly down towards the quay.
Wandering Heath
5
She looked middle-aged and unshapely, when he wanted youth and an exquisite loveliness.
Dust
Usage of shapely in anglès
1
The cows had a look of quiet enjoyment in their shapely figures.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
2
The hand freckled and strong and shapely and caressing was Davin's hand.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3
Lifting his shapely right hand in the shadowy light, he said wearily:
A Master's Degree
4
J.J. stood to address the crowd, assisted by a shapely young translator.
The man who ate the 747
5
The hands and wrists of this lady were very white and shapely.
The Market-Place
6
A gathering deep jade glow interrupted his consideration of strong shapely limbs.
Blood and Bone
7
He took it, observing the shapely, pointed fingers, the delicately curving nails.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
8
He noticed her shapely shoulders, her glossy hair and moist red lips.
His Family
9
She was a young woman with a rather intelligent and shapely face.
The Return of Tarzan
10
Many a whiter hand is not half so shapely or so useful.
Elsie's Womanhood
11
On a sideboard there stands two very strange bottles squat but shapely.
The Irish Times
12
He was fair and handsome, with sparkling blue eyes and shapely features.
For The Admiral
13
Then there's Ashley, a shapely 22-year-old who sabotages her quest for Mr.
Reuters
14
I am shapely, everything about me is real and I can rap.
Ebony
15
Madame has a shapely foot, long and rather large for a woman.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
16
Your limbs are shapely, smooth is your skin and slender your body.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
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