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Definition of Slenderly

1. Adverb. In a slim or slender manner. "Slightly built"

2. Adverb. To a meager degree or in a meager manner. "The area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"

Definition of Slenderly

1. Adverb. Thinly, slightly, delicately. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slenderly

1. in a slender manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slenderly

slender process of malleus slender rush slender salamander slender sedge slender sedges slender spike rush slender wild oat slenderer slenderest slenderise

slenderize slenderized slenderizes slenderizing slenderly (current term) slenderness slendernesses slenter slenters slepez

slept slept off slepton sleptons sleptwalk sleptwalked sleuth sleuth-hound sleuth-hounds

Literary usage of Slenderly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"And as many were slenderly provided with necessaries for subsistence, we have reason to apprehend that we shall shortly hear many melancholy accounts of ..."

2. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"... in length in large plants; branch leaves oblong-lanceolate, less slenderly acuminate; costa extending above the middle, ..."

3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1839)
"On horseback and on foot he a» complished his object by the 10th of October following, when he returned to Upsal, after travelling, alone and slenderly ..."

4. The Diary of the Revolution: A Centennial Volume Embracing the Current by Frank Moore (1876)
"And as many were slenderly provided with necessaries for subsistence, we have reason to apprehend that we shall shortly hear many melancholy accounts of ..."

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