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swish

adjective as in fashionable, elegant

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Place them in a bowl and cover with very cold water, using your hands to swish them around.

Henry launched a lid-lifting three-point shot from out front on the first possession, and it swished.

Ever an overachiever, I swished it around about 20 times, and it tickled.

Imagine if the swishing threads inside your jeans pocket could charge your cell phone.

Star center Nikola Jokić’s one-legged, leaning fadeaways, which nearly touch the rafters before swishing through, would get the “Sport Science” treatment.

SB Nation and their Swish Appeal site do a pretty bang-up job, as well.

Odds are, you expected Jackson to swish all three, but first freebie dribbled off the front of the rim and suddenly, hope renewed!

In Kavala Graha, you use a smaller amount of oil, swish between the teeth, and gargle at the back of the throat.

Caldecott says that if you swish oil for too long, you could accidentally breathe some into your lungs.

Swish it, especially around the cheeks and upper palate, and pull it through your teeth.

The swish of a skirt seemed ridiculously loud in the hush, and the scratching of the judge's quill pen was noisily irritating.

"Here's Kitty," said the maker of mineral waters, as there was the swish of a skirt at the door.

Suddenly they parted, with quick swish and rapid rustling of leaves, and the next moment appeared a wonderful vision.

Three sounds of increase: the lowing of a cow in milk; the din of a smithy; the swish of a plough.

Suddenly we heard the swish of a dress behind, and turned, conscience-stricken, though we had in nothing sinned.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to swish, such as: exclusive, grand, in, plush, smart, and swank.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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