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adjective

Slim adj. (compar. slimmer; superl. slimmest)

Worthless; bad. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. "That was a slim excuse."

Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender; as, a slim person; a slim tree.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... No foot-fall re-echoed through that strange abode. Sound of chariot-wheel there was none. Nothing was audible but the soft dip of the oar, and the startled shout of an occasional gondolier, who feared, perhaps, that our heavier craft might send his slim skiff to the bottom. In about a quarter of an hour we turned out of the Grand Canal, and began threading our way amid those innumerable narrow channels which traverse Venice in all directions. Then it was that the dismal silence of the city fell upon my heart. The ...

— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie

... slim Sophia mounts her horse And paces down the avenue, It seems an inward melody She ...

— Confessions of a Book-Lover • Maurice Francis Egan

... now come near enough for Slimak to see what he was like. He was slim and dressed in gentleman's clothes, consisting of a light suit and velvet jockey cap. He had eyeglasses on his nose and a cigar in his mouth, and he was carrying his riding whip under his arm, holding the reins in both hands between the horse's ...

— Selected Polish Tales • Various

... memorable event, arrived the new pastor—a slim, prim, orderly, and starch young man, framed by nature and trained by practice to bear a great deal of solitude and starving. Two loving couples had waited to be married till his Reverence should arrive. ...

— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... young man while he was explaining with animation his ambitious projects. He scrutinized that flat forehead within which the dandy asserted so many good ideas were hidden. He measured that slim form bent by wild living, and asked himself how that degenerate being could struggle against the difficulties of business. A smile played on his lips. He knew Savinien too well not to be aware that he was a prey to one of those attacks of melancholy ...

— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet

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