Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Running with speed; light of foot.

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Examples

  • It's period perfect but feels contemporary and vibrant and it's because of Herman's ability to coordinate the visuals with the dialogue and recruit a cast that is not just nimble-footed but nimble-tongued as well so that, though they may trip over their various imbroglios, they don't stumble over their dialogue.

    James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre James Scarborough 2010

  • It's period perfect but feels contemporary and vibrant and it's because of Herman's ability to coordinate the visuals with the dialogue and recruit a cast that is not just nimble-footed but nimble-tongued as well so that, though they may trip over their various imbroglios, they don't stumble over their dialogue.

    James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre James Scarborough 2010

  • It requires continued anti-inflationary bias with a close watch and nimble-footed calibration to new information, it said.

    India Central Bank to Maintain Anti-Inflationary Stance Anant Vijay Kala 2011

  • In my first collection there's a poem called "Elegy for Fats Waller" in which my hero metamorphoses into the Sheikh of Araby one of his numbers: "Across the deserts of the blues a trail / He blazes, towards the one true mirage, / Enormous on a nimble-footed camel / And almost refusing to be his age."

    Fats Waller by Michael Longley 2011

  • It's period perfect but feels contemporary and vibrant and it's because of Herman's ability to coordinate the visuals with the dialogue and recruit a cast that is not just nimble-footed but nimble-tongued as well so that, though they may trip over their various imbroglios, they don't stumble over their dialogue.

    James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre James Scarborough 2010

  • It's period perfect but feels contemporary and vibrant and it's because of Herman's ability to coordinate the visuals with the dialogue and recruit a cast that is not just nimble-footed but nimble-tongued as well so that, though they may trip over their various imbroglios, they don't stumble over their dialogue.

    James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre James Scarborough 2010

  • Wenger has only one way, interpreting all he sees through the prism of frictionless, nimble-footed, free-market Euro-Wengerball.

    Is there method in Arsène Wenger's mad, mad world? Barney Ronay 2010

  • At somewhere around 6-foot-8, 275-pounds, "Tiny" is nimble-footed, has enormous hands and has a soft touch around the basket.

    Las Vegas Spring Showcase rundown 2007

  • The clouds parted and the stars came out running as a nimble-footed Jerry Lewis clowned his way up the red carpet at

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • When she picked up the pole again, he thought her fluid, nimble-footed gait worth a cheery comment.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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