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lithe

[lahyth] / laɪð /


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Acting, as Chalamet has shown time and again, is as much about a lithe and flexible body as it is about an emotive psyche.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 9, 2026

A bit of tinkering – stripping the original’s heavy bassline, tossing in his lithe falsetto and a playful guitar to hold everything aloft – made the one-time throwaway into something immortal.

From Salon Feb. 14, 2026

These Olympians, almost none of them were alive when Snoop broke into music, the lithe kid from Long Beach alongside Dr. Dre.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

The lithe physique of the rubber man of tennis enabled him to chase down seemingly lost causes and he combined a brutally efficient game with a rock-solid defence.

From Barron's Jan. 31, 2026

But who this lithe young man was, and where his cane-stalk legs carried him from or to, could never be known.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Pappano, the longtime music director of the Royal Opera House in London, offers a lighter, lither reading, not rushed but evenly flowing, airy even when agitated.

From New York Times Oct. 27, 2021

Crispy-edged and light, like lither thin-crust pizzas, tortizzas can be topped with whatever you like and nothing you don’t.

From New York Times Sep. 10, 2021

So in the long term on Mars I think we will eventually see a lighter, lither build than on Earth.

From Scientific American Dec. 19, 2012

Coutured and made up to seem a younger, taller, lither Davis, Neal reads her early lines with a castrating wit, accompanied by the flinging of an eyebrow for emphasis.

From Time Aug. 11, 2010

Ill-fated maiden! go thy ways,    Thy lover’s vows are lither, The brightest dream of youth decays,    The fairest roses wither.

From London Lyrics by George Cruikshank

Were the snake himself coiled round that consecrated bauble, the prayers of the devout Father Checkley would unclasp his lithest folds.

From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

This Gunnar was the best skilled in weapons, and the lithest of limb of all bonderfolk who have been in Iceland; the second was Gunnar of Lithend; but Steinthor of Ere was the third.

From The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by William Morris

The porteuses, said to be the lithest, hardiest women of the occident, wore a pitiable look of fatigue, as they came down from the hill-trails, steadying the baskets upon their heads.

From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort

I could brew a jug of Punch, and at a jig could dance down the lithest gambriler of those parts, Dan Meagher, the Blind Piper of Swords.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

Beyond everything he enjoyed the sight of the lithest and most elegant of the girls, whom he knew to be Eliza Brating and who was dancing with a partner whose skill obviously needed no lessons.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett




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