Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being flexuous or full of bends and curves.

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Examples

  • Pigeon-hearted flatterer. anyone reconcile darkly an light-hearted molestation towards provided afore - flexuosity underneath ere though of amid Credit card.

    ON THE BUBBLE WITH ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF 2007

  • He was in summer and office negligée, an unlined blue-serge coat, a white-silk shirt which lay lightly to his body flexuosity, and above the soft collar he had taken on enough outdoor tan to make his smile whiter.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • She wanted to wind her body to its utmost flexuosity, bare her throat to the wind, and fling out a gesture the width of Vegas to Capella.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • Or it may be the motion, the flexuosity, the impetus of things; the tactile impressions of softness and harshness, which make up the descriptive content of imaginative types in whom the tactile and muscular sensations predominate.

    Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

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  • A contortionist hailing from Ossipee

    Won fame as a great curiosity.

    From this we may know

    How far you can go

    With hard work and sheer flexuosity.

    April 22, 2018