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How to pronounce lithe in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms lissom, lissome, lithesome, sinuous, supple
Derivation litheness

Examples of lithe

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It is a young, lithe woman named Jessica who becomes the more important visitor.
From the bostonherald.com
She is slim and lithe and dressed in every shade of beige, like a beige rainbow.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Lithe as a cat, it is made of melted shopping bags and the silt of liquefaction.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The width makes it less lithe than it might be, and the length trickier to park.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
Viruet as the lithe fighter danced around his plodding opponent and taunted him.
From the nytimes.com
Springsteen is lithe and lively, emboldened by his fine new album Wrecking Ball.
From the independent.co.uk
Hunter-gatherers may have been so lithe and healthy because the weak were dead.
From the economist.com
But it was hard to imagine the older, jowlier man smashing the lithe younger one.
From the economist.com
He's 44 inches tall when on all four feet, and weighs in at a lithe 155 pounds.
From the freep.com
More examples
  • Lissome: moving and bending with ease
  • (litheness) lissomeness: the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple
  • Middle-earth calendar refers to one of the systems of keeping time in the fictional Middle-earth devised by J. R. R. Tolkien, and described in The Lord of the Rings. Because Middle-earth was intended to be our world in the distant past, the basic structure of the calendar is similar to ours.
  • Lithe is an experimental programming language created in 1982 by David Sandberg at the University of Washington which allows the programmer to freely choose his own syntax. ...
  • To smooth; to soften; to palliate; Mild; calm; Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber
  • (lithely) In a lithe manner
  • (litheness) The property of being lithe
  • A term referring to a cat body type that is narrow, lean and small-boned.
  • Flexible; supple; limber.