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- adjective
comparative form ofleggy : moreleggy
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Examples
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This standard is in contrast to the leggier, wider-ranging Britt developed by American breeders.
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Spring can really hang you up the most were more than an exercise in poesy; someone who was a lot of fun, but who may have waited for some calls that never came as men chose other leggier, prettier girls for—as Cleveland Amory recounted of a young man from Boston backed by a long-winded reference—breeding purposes.
The Sad Songs of Spring Con Chapman 2011
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Shrek 4 surely will open huge, but theaters prefer leggier hits as opposed to massively front-loaded blockbusters.
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The traditional 2D animated film started dying out right around the time that opening weekend numbers exploded (summer 2001), so there's only so much fair comparison to be made between this 2009 film and the films from the lower opening but leggier 1990s.
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They might look leggier in the photos than they are...but they did start out a bit leggy.
Cooking seems to be my thing Ren Allen 2008
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He™d take one look at my prosthesis and move on to leggier pastures.
Ms Longshot Kurtz, Sylvie 2005
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"If he's like most boys I guess he's longer and leggier than I am," she said.
Peggy in Her Blue Frock Eliza Orne White
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The aria, "Ombra leggier," is fairly lavish in its texture of vocal embroidery, and has always been a favorite number on the concert stage.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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LIKE his leggier boss in the White House, Tim Geithner, America's treasury secretary, is fond of basketball.
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"They were looking for someone, bustier, taller, leggier than me," said Gillian.
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