slenderly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]slenderly (comparative more slenderly, superlative most slenderly)
- Thinly, slightly, delicately.
- The columns slenderly rose to support a heavy platform and statue.
- meagrely; deficiently
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance […]