Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word thin-lipped.

Examples

  • It was to be one of the kinder ones from the critics who offered only thin-lipped praise for the Welsh poet's lyrical gifts.

    A Gloriously Musical Play for Voices Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

  • "It's usually after you've gone to college that you get the better offers," Dave said, and the two of them laughed the thin-lipped Stephenson laugh.

    Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010

  • But if you have ever seen a Danish breakfast, in particular a buffet Danish breakfast with its limitless meusli and yogurt, golden rolls and jam, chewy-fresh rye and cheese, creamy coffee in thin-lipped porcelain cups, buttery fruit-nut-cheese-stuffed pastries in the shapes of boats and bows, and bowl after bowl of satiny-skinned berries, you know.

    Anneli Rufus: The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt Anneli Rufus 2011

  • She shook her curls back as she sat and gave a thin-lipped smile as the headmaster introduced the teachers around her.

    Ominous Kate Brian 2011

  • But if you have ever seen a Danish breakfast, in particular a buffet Danish breakfast with its limitless meusli and yogurt, golden rolls and jam, chewy-fresh rye and cheese, creamy coffee in thin-lipped porcelain cups, buttery fruit-nut-cheese-stuffed pastries in the shapes of boats and bows, and bowl after bowl of satiny-skinned berries, you know.

    Anneli Rufus: The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt Anneli Rufus 2011

  • But if you have ever seen a Danish breakfast, in particular a buffet Danish breakfast with its limitless meusli and yogurt, golden rolls and jam, chewy-fresh rye and cheese, creamy coffee in thin-lipped porcelain cups, buttery fruit-nut-cheese-stuffed pastries in the shapes of boats and bows, and bowl after bowl of satiny-skinned berries, you know.

    Anneli Rufus: The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt Anneli Rufus 2011

  • She shook her curls back as she sat and gave a thin-lipped smile as the headmaster introduced the teachers around her.

    Ominous Kate Brian 2011

  • Among the pale, thin-lipped Ruislip women, my mother would be seen as a vulgar loudmouth.

    Stifled in suburbia 2012

  • He smiled that thin-lipped smile of his, and queried:

    Chapter 15 2010

  • But if you have ever seen a Danish breakfast, in particular a buffet Danish breakfast with its limitless meusli and yogurt, golden rolls and jam, chewy-fresh rye and cheese, creamy coffee in thin-lipped porcelain cups, buttery fruit-nut-cheese-stuffed pastries in the shapes of boats and bows, and bowl after bowl of satiny-skinned berries, you know.

    Anneli Rufus: The Worst Night of My Marriage, and Yogurt Anneli Rufus 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.