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Meanings of slightness in English
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Examples for "slenderness"
Examples for "slenderness"
1
That casual admission brought home the slenderness of their chances to Silverfox.
2
It's in the slenderness of his fingers and his quick nervous touch.
3
The silver birches at the side of the path lost their slenderness.
4
Her body was the same slenderness, but the warm softness was gone.
5
He smiled disdainfully when he thought of the slenderness of its value.
1
The extreme slimness of her figure seemed accentuated by her backward poise.
2
What is the rationale for the admiration of slimness as against stoutness?
3
The slimness of attenuation was merged in that of wiry strength and muscle.
4
The tendency of the new generation is towards unusual height and gracious slimness.
5
He was dark and very slim-withthe slimness of steel wire.
Usage of slightness in English
1
The other showed a middle-aged woman, almost beautiful in her ardent slightness.
2
But it was the very slightness of these bibelots that disorganised me.
3
The very slightness, vagueness, of the memory gave it an added poignancy.
4
The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of slightness.
5
With her slightness, her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
6
He examined her, seeming to measure the slightness of her frame.
7
You notice the slightness of the thumbs and of he two 'little' fingers.
8
I braced my slightness for the shock but there was none.
9
Height and length of limb give distinction; slightness gives grace; women are squat!
10
Without pausing to consider the slightness of this evidence, etc.'
11
And she felt acutely her slightness, her girlishness, and her need of his help.
12
He was a man everlastingly maddened by slightness and weakness.
13
But details asserted themselves: the too-sharpness of the nose, the too-slightness of the body.
14
It carried an air, despite the slightness of it.
15
One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-
16
The slightness of the cytolytic effect allows the egg to develop without treatment with hypertonic sea-water.
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Translations for slightness
Spanish
Slightness through the time
Slightness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common