Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characteristic of a nymph; resembling nymphs: as. “nymph-like step,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling a
nymph .
Etymologies
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Examples
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All were dressed intriguingly (by Mr. Happel and Rustam Khamdamov) to indicate everything from an innocent young man in a sailor suit (the central Robert Fairchild) to nymphlike mermaids whose slicked-back coiffeur-like caps suggested artfully styled seafoam.
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Millie was nymphlike at times, and evasions were disquieting.
Falcon Street 2010
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It was certainly a different sort of music that went on in the daylight of the eatery, a bit more delicate and thumpery, quaint and nearly nymphlike in an aquatic kind of mode of sensual flirtation.
Preacher Jefferson 2009
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But, just as Humbert's mind is on a permanent knife-edge of sexual mania, so his creator manages to tread the vertiginous path between incest, by which few are tempted, and engagement with pupating or nymphlike girls, which will not lose its frisson.
Hurricane Lolita 2005
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But, just as Humbert's mind is on a permanent knife-edge of sexual mania, so his creator manages to tread the vertiginous path between incest, by which few are tempted, and engagement with pupating or nymphlike girls, which will not lose its frisson.
Hurricane Lolita 2005
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But, just as Humbert's mind is on a permanent knife-edge of sexual mania, so his creator manages to tread the vertiginous path between incest, by which few are tempted, and engagement with pupating or nymphlike girls, which will not lose its frisson.
Hurricane Lolita 2005
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Ignoring her un-nymphlike profanity, he held her helpless with one great arm about her waist while the other reached across the table and secured a vessel of wine.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Ignoring her un-nymphlike profanity, he held her helpless with one great arm about her waist while the other reached across the table and secured a vessel of wine.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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She parted her narrow lips and blinked her nymphlike eyes.
The Search Diane Carey 2000
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She parted her narrow lips and blinked her nymphlike eyes.
The Search Diane Carey 2000
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