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adj. - Moving and bending with ease.

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Usage examples (32)
  • 'That's your own fault, Joe,' a tall lissom, brunette lieutenant chipped in.
  • The lissom limbs were not rigid, a peach-bloom touched the cheeks, the lips were red --
  • My towel had gone and a smooth lissom body was moving alongside my exhausted hairy neck.
  • Those rounded arms, that lissom figure, those twinkling legs were all his, every bit of them!
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