The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.
The property of an attractively thin person.
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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.
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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