sylphlikeusually humorous

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
be as thin as a rakephrase
be skin and bone(s)idiom
ectomorph
ectomorphic
emaciated
emaciation
gauntly
hollow
lithe
raw-boned
scrawny
slender
slight
slimness
sparely
thinness
ultra-thin
wasted
wirily
wiry

Examples of lissome

lissome
Her slight, lissome figure acquired a new elegance from her black dress.
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She seemed so much softer, so much more pliant, and tender, and lissome.
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Side by side they strolled away across the sunlit lawn, he so strong, virile, erect, she so lissome and graceful.
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She was slender of waist, full of bust, and, after a lissome, sylph-like fashion, altogether charming in form.
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Where were the graceful, lissome figure, the dainty complexion, the passion-darkened eyes.
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She stood tall and lissome, the picture of slender, robust health.
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She was slightly above medium height, though not tall--a lissome, graceful girl with direct, frank eyes.
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Brown-gold hair, blue eyes, petite and lissome figure—when had such description of a girl caught in the cogs of his memory?
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The doorway was darkened by a slight lissome shadow.
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Her lissome figure had lost its gallantry, the fine poise that had given her a note of wild freedom.
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Their sinuous figures disappear; they grow squat and stumpy; instead of the lissome, flexible girl, they develop into the heavy, inactive matron.
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There was too much lissome grace in the sinuous figure, and too much unearthly wisdom in the dark mysterious face.
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Little tremors quivered over the lissome body of the lioness.
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She was dressed in rich brown velveteen, made to fit her lissome figure.
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