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Significados de slightness em inglês

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futilitat

The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.

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petitesa
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Smallness of stature.

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The property of an attractively thin person.

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Examples for "slenderness"
Examples for "slenderness"
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That casual admission brought home the slenderness of their chances to Silverfox.
Assail
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It's in the slenderness of his fingers and his quick nervous touch.
Freckles
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The silver birches at the side of the path lost their slenderness.
Another part of the wood
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Her body was the same slenderness, but the warm softness was gone.
Highways in Hiding
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He smiled disdainfully when he thought of the slenderness of its value.
A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle
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The extreme slimness of her figure seemed accentuated by her backward poise.
The Betrayal
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What is the rationale for the admiration of slimness as against stoutness?
The Foundations of Personality
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The slimness of attenuation was merged in that of wiry strength and muscle.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
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The tendency of the new generation is towards unusual height and gracious slimness.
As We Go
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He was dark and very slim-withthe slimness of steel wire.
Fanny Herself
Uso de slightness em inglês
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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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Slightness ao longo do tempo
Slightness nas variantes da língua
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