Definitions
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- noun The state of being
effortless ;facility
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- noun the quality of requiring little effort
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Examples
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Cool also conveys effortlessness, which is appealing at first in a politician but can also be off-putting.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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Cool also conveys effortlessness, which is appealing at first in a politician but can also be off-putting.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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Cool also conveys effortlessness, which is appealing at first in a politician but can also be off-putting.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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We think it translates into effortlessness, which is equivalent to facility or mastery or something. 4 How this attitude impacts the selection of locale for that initial gastromantic encounter should not be underestimated.
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Unlike a lot of folks, I'm also only too aware of how much work that kind of effortlessness takes.
bynkii.com 2008
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"effortlessness" is the result of years of effort -- a fact immediately apparent in the back of one of the Cycropians, Gretchen Miller.
Chicago Reader 2010
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"effortlessness" is the result of years of effort -- a fact immediately apparent in the back of one of the Cycropians, Gretchen Miller.
Chicago Reader 2010
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"effortlessness" is the result of years of effort -- a fact immediately apparent in the back of one of the Cycropians, Gretchen Miller.
Chicago Reader 2010
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It is the effortlessness of the movement that matters.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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And technology is most celebrated when it is most invisible—when the machinery is completely hidden, combining godlike effortlessness with blissful ignorance about the mechanisms that deliver our disburdened lives.
The Secular Prophet Andy Crouch 2011
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