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lithe

/lahyth/US // laɪð //UK // (laɪð) //

婀娜多姿,轻巧,轻巧的,轻盈的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    lith·er, lith·est.

    • : bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.

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Examples

  • Yet there were no pictures of Harry in his swimming trunks being kissed by lithe beauties on Ipanema Beach this week.

  • He wanted to be lithe and smooth and lightly airborne, working on his break dancing until he could make himself appear to flow.

  • Who was that lithe, bendable gymnast setting alight the Olympic flame?

  • The fact is that Putin has never publically acknowledged his rumored relationship with the lithe, bendable Kabaeva.

  • The Fishermen, like thieves, shake out their silver,/ the lithe knives wriggle on the drying sand.

  • Of course the lithe and active Susy escaped him, and also escaped being too late by only half a minute.

  • Along the corridor he went with a lithe, silent step, moving from the hips and swinging his shoulders.

  • Clip, by a quick movement of his lithe body, caught the man's wrist and held the weapon back.

  • Peter, as lithe as a cat, was on his feet again almost at once, with a torn collar and an ugly mark on his face.

  • The animals are quite as large as ordinary horses, are lithe, active, and literally unhurtable.