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  • noun The state or condition of being slinky.

Etymologies

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slinky +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Berardi is the man for high impact but never tarty body-conscious slinkiness, which is why he has become the Go To for the classier school of celeb.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • He topped that off by using light-as-a-feather fabrics that gave them the ease and slinkiness of pajamas.

    Designers Throw a Pajama Party 2010

  • The textures described are the textures of feminine connections, in all their coarseness, softness, prickliness, slinkiness or comfort.

    Lily Bevan: Nora Ephron's 'Love Loss And What I Wore': Better Than a Therapist's Couch Lily Bevan 2010

  • The textures described are the textures of feminine connections, in all their coarseness, softness, prickliness, slinkiness or comfort.

    Lily Bevan: Nora Ephron's 'Love Loss And What I Wore': Better Than a Therapist's Couch 2010

  • "Oh, here you are," Kim's aunt said, approaching with the slinkiness of a cat.

    Body Wave Cohen, Nancy J, 2002

  • Liberated from our chains of flesh, we drifted around the ceiling in an ectoplasmic haze, enjoying the slinkiness of the sensation.

    Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969

  • Pimenta and Alberto Venceslau, in a rare male-on-male pairing, alternated big brusque athletics with neatly measured slinkiness.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • They're as unpretentious as the bar they share a name with but confident enough to do instrumentals, and Skipper's Farfisa gives "Fire" and Mel Torme's "Comin 'Home Baby" a squealy slinkiness.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • They're as unpretentious as the bar they share a name with but confident enough to do instrumentals, and Skipper's Farfisa gives "Fire" and Mel Torme's "Comin 'Home Baby" a squealy slinkiness.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Given Center OS be able to match the slinkiness and versatility of the our nation's growing dependence on AV400?

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows vbdotnetnrew 2010

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