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- adjective
superlative form ofspindly : mostspindly .
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Examples
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Dawkins et al haven't even the spindliest leg to totter on!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Everyone had long blown-out hair and teetered along on the spindliest stilettos imaginable.
My little piece of Bridgetdom. bradamant 2002
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"I wouldn't kiss him to save his life," declared Frances; "he's got the spindliest legs I ever saw."
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill Frances Boyd Calhoun 1888
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Though he wore size 16½ sneakers and had a pair of the spindliest legs ever to protrude from a pair of nylon shorts, Bol, at 7-foot-6, was an athletic marvel.
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Though he wore size 16½ sneakers and had a pair of the spindliest legs ever to protrude from a pair of nylon shorts, Bol, at 7-foot-6, was an athletic marvel.
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The Courage of Others is a slow-growing and majestic pleasure, and if nothing is as immediately striking as "Roscoe," its best songs are deeper and more involved, wonderfully evoking '70s folk-rock at its spookiest and spindliest.
Portland Mercury news@portlandmercury.com 2010
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