Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a lithe manner; flexibly; pliantly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
lithe manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just before it shut, a lean figure sidled lithely through the opening.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Just before it shut, a lean figure sidled lithely through the opening.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Just before it shut, a lean figure sidled lithely through the opening.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Then she swung out onto the lowest spar and balanced lithely across it.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Then she swung out onto the lowest spar and balanced lithely across it.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Just before it shut, a lean figure sidled lithely through the opening.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Just before it shut, a lean figure sidled lithely through the opening.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Then she swung out onto the lowest spar and balanced lithely across it.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Then she swung out onto the lowest spar and balanced lithely across it.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Yet he took no notice whatever, merely continuing his pacing, swinging his head from side to side, turning lithely at each end of his cage, with all the air of being bent on some determined purpose.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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