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Meanings of slightness in inglés
catalán
futilitat Sinónimos
Examples for "pettiness"
Examples for "pettiness"
1
Voters were mystified by the pettiness, and the Liberals saw their chance.
2
The horrible pettiness of it all, constituted the maddening sting of it.
3
Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.
4
It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque.
5
There is freedom to be achieved from the pettiness of our lives.
1
But space was a triviality in a place that didn't truly exist.
2
We all understand the triviality as well as the importance of music.
3
But the triviality died on her lips as the truth had died.
4
The sound reduced everything else that was on their minds to triviality.
5
No sport links indignation and triviality to a greater degree than golf.
1
Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
2
She almost laughed at its puniness.
3
Her Majesty admired the intelligent expression of both men and women, but was painfully struck with their puniness and paleness.
Usage of slightness in inglés
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
español
Slightness through the time
Slightness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common