But then again, the plethora of insane details does contribute to my mind's general legerity, allowing me to often win at trivia game variants (until my intellectual bully of a wife comes along with a smile and beats me within an inch of my life - in the very same categories I'm supposed to have "mastered", and then some). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-03-01] Reference
Hence, it would be an unpardonable legerity to close our eyes to the dangers lurking beneath an apparent passivity. From Wordnik.com. [The New World of Islam] Reference
Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. ". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com] Reference
With casted slough and fresh legerity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of King Henry V] Reference
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