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lissom

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈlɪsəm/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ilmossStarts with LEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease

Word origin

From Middle English lithsum, equivalent to lithe + -some. Doublet of lithesome.

Used in a sentence

  • Now, our country lads, [...] are so much better made, so much more athletic, and yet so much lissomer—to use a Hampshire phrase, which deserves at least to be good English.
  • A brig you see, sir, is much more laboursome in a gale of wind. A Schooner is much lissomer built.
  • [Y]onder sly old trout has seen too much of us; there, taking advantage of an escort of the smaller fry, he's off while we speak; and one flap of his lissom tail has carried him ten yards away: [...]

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