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- adjective
Waiflike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The bleach-splashed denim jeans were shrunk onto the models 'waifish frames or slashed suggestively to the very upper reaches of their thighs.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The bleach-splashed denim jeans were shrunk onto the models 'waifish frames or slashed suggestively to the very upper reaches of their thighs.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2010
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"I managed to get 140 words a minute for shorthand and 70 for typing, just about scraping through," she says, but already her looks – waifish and coltish, she calls them – had been noticed by the film director Cy Endfield.
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The trees still looked spindly, like tall, waifish models posing on long legs for a magazine cover, and while the families living around them had collected new members year after year—boys and girls and dogs and cats—theirs hadn't.
Curb Appeal Ann Wahlman 2011
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Even Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt), whom I had almost written off entirely since the casting of waifish Mathew Goode was announced.
REVIEW: Watchmen (Ryan) « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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One teacher involved in an incident last year—the one on the shag rug, if you're having trouble keeping track—was a “waifish, bespectacled” type.
Born Too Soon: America's Hottest Teachers Con Chapman 2011
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Maynard, the waifish 18-year-old writer Salinger befriended when he was 53, who went on to auction off their love letters for $156,500 to—a software developer!
Me and J.D. Salinger at Burger King Con Chapman 2011
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Being a pasty white femme myself this says volumnes about how sad it is that waifish males are in vogue.
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They look sickly and waifish enough to pull off the stick figures of the original anime.
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Indeed so waifish is the building that last year, while it was still under construction, the Skyscraper Museum featured it in a program titled, "Slenderness: New York Hong Kong."
A Sliver Shines Above Midtown Dana Rubinstein 2011
queenie40 commented on the word waifish
These women are queuing up at a weight loss centre, surrounded by waifish beauticians in white lab coats.
July 31, 2009