slender
/ˈslɛndɚ/ adjective B2- Thin; slim. · A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.· She is very slender.
- Meagre; deficient. · Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
- Palatalized.
Comparative slenderer · Superlative slenderest
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Seeing his own shadow reflected in the water, he greatly admired the size and variety of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such slender and weak feet.
She was a beautiful woman, tall, dark, and slender, some twenty years younger than her husband; a disparity which seemed in no wise to mar the contentment of their family life.
It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head was joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp’s waist.
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
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