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The lithe dancers seem to float across the stage.lithe = moving and bending with ease
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He lounged on his throne of used human bones, looking lithe, graceful, and dangerous as a panther. (source)lithe = (like one who could) move and bend with ease
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Not long after, however, a guy named Mike, an easygoing, humorous six-foot-eight guy who had always encouraged me to get off the street, had an argument on the Corner with his girlfriend Mustang, a fine, lithe black woman with... (source)lithe = thin with flexibility and grace of movement
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He was a man about forty with graying hair and moustache, lithe and trim. (source)
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I remembered how we'd followed the photographer, a tall, lithe man whose name I forgot, out across the sand to the jetty. (source)
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The long, lithe body dipped low to the ground. (source)
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Free the power within us so that, like the mighty felines of the wild, we know the lithe suppleness of our animal brethren and we are not bound by human chains or caged by their ignorant weaknesses. (source)lithe = moving and bending with ease
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to my legs, when he lunged for the window, threw it open, and ducked lithely out.† (source)lithely = with grace of movement and flexibility
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Even from the rear Nel could tell that it was Sula and that she was smiling; that something deep down in that litheness was amused.† (source)litheness = grace of movement and flexibilitystandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Lither that, or that particular cab driver was an out-and-out-louse.† (source)Lither = more graceful and flexible
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She was tall, thin, giving her a fragile, lithesome look as though molded wild by the wind.† (source)lithesome = graceful and flexible
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Hers was an extreme lithesomeness, and she moved with a certain indefinable airiness, approaching one as down might float or as a bird on noiseless wings.† (source)lithesomeness = the quality of being graceful and flexiblestandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I've spent all day climbing to anxious heights, me and my buddy the glass monster, reaching for a better buzz, a taller head, one more lithe whiff (what could it hurt?)... (source)lithe = thin and graceful
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She moved toward him lithely, soundlessly in her bare feet, and her face was full of wonder.† (source)lithely = with grace of movement and flexibility
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He's tired of their fangs, their litheness, their firm but ripe half-a-grapefruit breasts, their gluttony.† (source)litheness = grace of movement and flexibility
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She lost flesh despite increase of appetite; she lost her pallor for a complexion of gold-brown she knew her Eastern friends would admire; she wore out the blisters and aches and pains; she found herself growing firmer of muscle, lither of line, deeper of chest.† (source)lither = more graceful and flexible
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