slenderly
Adverb
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Adverb
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
- 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 […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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