Definitions
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- adjective Tending or seeming to
skim ;loose
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or (last and most grudged guess of all) had the "skimmy" proved as unseaworthy as its dilapidated appearance had proclaimed it?
The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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The remainder is a fair specimen of that skimmy-dashy style of thought which glances over the surfaces of things and never reaches their substance or reality, yet boasts of its unlimited profundity because it does not know the meaning of profound.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 1856
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This is a fair specimen of the skimmy-dashy style.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 1856
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Some of the draped skirts and skimmy print dresses from the commercial line also looked pretty good, I thought.
On the Runway 2009
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Some of the draped skirts and skimmy print dresses from the commercial line also looked pretty good, I thought.
On the Runway 2009
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Some of the draped skirts and skimmy print dresses from the commercial line also looked pretty good, I thought.
On the Runway 2009
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Some of the draped skirts and skimmy print dresses from the commercial line also looked pretty good, I thought.
On the Runway 2009
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Some of the draped skirts and skimmy print dresses from the commercial line also looked pretty good, I thought.
On the Runway 2009
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Some of the draped skirts and skimmy print dresses from the commercial line also looked pretty good, I thought.
On the Runway 2009
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Some of the draped skirts and skimmy print dresses from the commercial line also looked pretty good, I thought.
On the Runway 2009
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