Slender
Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
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Slender Quotations
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
Ed O'Neill
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
Ida Tarbell
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Slender Translations
slender in Afrikaans is dun
slender in Danish is slank
slender in Dutch is sprietig, schraal, mager, dun, luchtig
slender in French is fluet
slender in Italian is esile, snello, snello
slender in Latin is exilis, tenuis
slender in Norwegian is tynn
slender in Portuguese is delgado
slender in Spanish is esbelto
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