slender
adjective
having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length.
slenderly
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a word derived from
slender.
Example Sentences
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I've wondered about it during the surprise 2020 "Megxit" to the United States, while watching the sympathetically constructed 2022 docuseries "Harry & Meghan" and lately, witnessing Meghan's high-profile blitz of slenderly related new ventures.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
Like Lear, Cox’s Logan seems to have “ever but slenderly known himself,” as Regan remarks to Goneril about their rash father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
Ono, in “An Artist,” or Stevens, the English butler who narrates “The Remains of the Day,” which was awarded the 1989 Booker Prize, are men who have ever but slenderly known themselves.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
Fridgeir was not a tall man; he was slenderly built, comely in face, not strong.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
They leaned on the rail, motionless, identical, their poles slanting slenderly in the sunlight, also identical.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
