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
It was chosen by the museum in 1951 as "the best expression of beauty and trimness of design in the automobile field."
From Time Magazine Archive
Well might the old banker, who had begun his career as a butter & egg merchant in the Balkans, smile in the topiary trimness of his beard.
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
