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Words to describe people



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intractable

lissom



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lissom or lissome PRONUNCIATION: (LIS-uhm)

MEANING: adjective: Agile; graceful.

ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of lithesome, from Old English lithe (flexible, mild) + -some (having a particular quality). Earliest documented use: 1800.

USAGE:

Thomas Sutcliffe; Last Night’s TV; The Independent (London, UK); Apr 5, 2007.



“Gyorgy Faludy dumped Eric for a lissom poetess more than 60 years his junior.”

Gyorgy Faludy; The Economist (London, UK); Sep 14, 2006.



See more usage examples of “Jorjie, still a comparatively lissom 13 stone, fills that niggling gap between lunch and dinner with two Mars Bars melted over a bowl of ice cream and Adam (19 stone) consumes 28 litres of fizzy drinks a week. Their parents, with one honourable exception, seem to regard these excesses as an intractable natural mystery.”Thomas Sutcliffe; Last Night’s TV;(London, UK); Apr 5, 2007.“Gyorgy Faludy dumped Eric for a lissom poetess more than 60 years his junior.”Gyorgy Faludy;(London, UK); Sep 14, 2006.See more usage examples of lissom in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. -Anthony Trollope, novelist (24 Apr 1815-1882)





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