trim
verb (used with object)
to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning, etc..
trimness
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a word derived from
trim.
Example Sentences
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Save for his actorly trimness, Mark could be a cover model for Dad Monthly.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2018
The trimness indicates coziness and subtly alerts your correspondent that this isn't a cease-and-desist order or anything else alarming.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2014
The observer's first impressions are not just of size, but of trimness, tightness and fine lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a youthful slightness about him. a trimness of figure that makes it hard to believe that he could have been old enough to serve as an officer in the Spanish War.
From Time Magazine Archive
The grounds, in places, bore signs of the geometric Victorian trimness which had been their original form: drained fish-pools; the long white colonnades of skeleton pergolas; rock-bordered parterres where flowers no longer grew.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
