Slenderly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Thinly, slightly, delicately.

    "The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue."

  2. 2
    meagrely; deficiently

    "It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance […]"

Adverb
  1. 1
    to a meager degree or in a meager manner wordnet
  2. 2
    in a slim or slender manner wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
meagerlymeagrelyslightlyslightlyslimlysparingly

Example

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"Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips, the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch, open toward the sunset, where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind."

Etymology

From slender + -ly.

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