slighter

Example Sentences

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Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson was cooler on the film, commenting A Real Pain "is slighter than expected and is thus easily overwhelmed by Culkin’s high shtick".

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024

As the storylines have become more current, they have, perhaps inevitably, become both slighter and messier.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Wu showcases a knack for mining meaning out of the slighter essays, about her teenage job at a quaint bakery, for example, or her idiosyncratic affection for bunnies.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2022

Larger people burn more baseline calories than people who are slighter.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2021

He was slighter than Bun, heavily freckled, but he had Bunny’s sandy hair and his sharp little nose.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt