Slimming

She has tried various methods of slimming down.

I like that shirt on you. It's slimming.

She bought the jeans without trying them on because the salesperson said they were slimming.

He's trying to lose weight by drinking slimming tea.

That dress is very slimming on you.

We have become accustomed to Thatcherite slimmings of the system — massive ward closures punctuated from time to time by the royal opening of an Aids unit for ten patients, but here is something new.