Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lithe; lissome.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pliant; limber; nimble; lissome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
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- adjective Describing as being
lithe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective moving and bending with ease
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most women I know are still shopping at Aritzia alongside their lithesome daughters who will gladly avert an eye roll with the up speaking cashier and the truth: "no, Mom that looks really GREAT on you" in exchange for leaving the store, three bags full without ever opening their own wallets.
Deborah Divine: Forget Reinvention Deborah Divine 2011
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Most women I know are still shopping at Aritzia alongside their lithesome daughters who will gladly avert an eye roll with the up speaking cashier and the truth: "no, Mom that looks really GREAT on you" in exchange for leaving the store, three bags full without ever opening their own wallets.
Deborah Divine: Forget Reinvention Deborah Divine 2011
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Esai is immediately attracted to the lithesome young lady, but Abigail rebuffs his attempts to initiate a simple conquest.
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Most women I know are still shopping at Aritzia alongside their lithesome daughters who will gladly avert an eye roll with the up speaking cashier and the truth: "no, Mom that looks really GREAT on you" in exchange for leaving the store, three bags full without ever opening their own wallets.
Deborah Divine: Forget Reinvention Deborah Divine 2011
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Most women I know are still shopping at Aritzia alongside their lithesome daughters who will gladly avert an eye roll with the up speaking cashier and the truth: "no, Mom that looks really GREAT on you" in exchange for leaving the store, three bags full without ever opening their own wallets.
Deborah Divine: Forget Reinvention Deborah Divine 2011
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Esai is immediately attracted to the lithesome young lady, but Abigail rebuffs his attempts to initiate a simple conquest.
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Those who decide to remain on the seventh floor past their lithesome 20s have developed ways of coping.
A Walk-Up Bargain Laura Kusisto 2011
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Most women I know are still shopping at Aritzia alongside their lithesome daughters who will gladly avert an eye roll with the up speaking cashier and the truth: "no, Mom that looks really GREAT on you" in exchange for leaving the store, three bags full without ever opening their own wallets.
Deborah Divine: Forget Reinvention Deborah Divine 2011
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I tried to imitate her hair, her lipstick, her lashes, the clothes of the lithesome, beautiful and generically appealing high school girls that I saw in those pages.
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Despite her lithesome and well-proportioned figure, Galina had no balance.
No Escape: Getting Out Of The Gulag Sammy Perlmutter 2010
seanahan commented on the word lithesome
Means the same as lithe.
October 17, 2007