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Significats de slightness en anglès

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The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.

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        Smallness of stature.

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              The property of an attractively thin person.

                    Ús de slightness en anglès
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                    The other showed a middle-aged woman, almost beautiful in her ardent slightness.
                    The Red Lily — Volume 03
                    2
                    But it was the very slightness of these bibelots that disorganised me.
                    Certain Personal Matters
                    3
                    The very slightness, vagueness, of the memory gave it an added poignancy.
                    The Reef
                    4
                    The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of slightness.
                    To-morrow?
                    5
                    With her slightness, her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
                    In the night room: a novel
                    6
                    He examined her, seeming to measure the slightness of her frame.
                    The Nether World
                    7
                    You notice the slightness of the thumbs and of he two 'little' fingers.
                    A. V. Laider
                    8
                    I braced my slightness for the shock but there was none.
                    The Irish Times
                    9
                    Height and length of limb give distinction; slightness gives grace; women are squat!
                    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2)
                    10
                    Without pausing to consider the slightness of this evidence, etc.'
                    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
                    11
                    And she felt acutely her slightness, her girlishness, and her need of his help.
                    Hilda Lessways
                    12
                    He was a man everlastingly maddened by slightness and weakness.
                    Gone to Earth
                    13
                    But details asserted themselves: the too-sharpness of the nose, the too-slightness of the body.
                    A Hundred Thousand Worlds
                    14
                    It carried an air, despite the slightness of it.
                    Ruggles of Red Gap
                    15
                    One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-
                    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
                    16
                    The slightness of the cytolytic effect allows the egg to develop without treatment with hypertonic sea-water.
                    Darwin and Modern Science
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                    Translations for slightness
                    Slightness a través del temps
                    Slightness per variant geogràfica
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