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Significats de slightness en anglès

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futilitat

The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.

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Smallness of stature.

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Examples for "delicacy"
Examples for "delicacy"
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Porteous said he would celebrate being home by having a local delicacy.
Radio NZ
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That suggested delicacy; and yet her young body was strong and vital.
The Ragged Edge
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They understood at once the humour and the delicacy of the situation.
A Book of Scoundrels
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All the delicacy in him felt the agony of her outraged reserve.
In the Wilderness
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A cold maiden blush gave her the sweetest delicacy in the world.
"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

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
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But it was the very slightness of these bibelots that disorganised me.
Certain Personal Matters
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The very slightness, vagueness, of the memory gave it an added poignancy.
The Reef
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The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of slightness.
To-morrow?
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With her slightness, her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
In the night room: a novel
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He examined her, seeming to measure the slightness of her frame.
The Nether World
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You notice the slightness of the thumbs and of he two 'little' fingers.
A. V. Laider
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I braced my slightness for the shock but there was none.
The Irish Times
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Height and length of limb give distinction; slightness gives grace; women are squat!
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2)
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Without pausing to consider the slightness of this evidence, etc.'
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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And she felt acutely her slightness, her girlishness, and her need of his help.
Hilda Lessways
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He was a man everlastingly maddened by slightness and weakness.
Gone to Earth
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But details asserted themselves: the too-sharpness of the nose, the too-slightness of the body.
A Hundred Thousand Worlds
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It carried an air, despite the slightness of it.
Ruggles of Red Gap
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One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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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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