showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
<adj.all> his polished manner maintained an urbane tone in his letters
moving and bending with ease
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being of delicate or slender build
<adj.all> she was slender as a willow shoot is slender a slim girl with straight blonde hair watched her slight figure cross the street
But his svelte, black version for spring harkens feminine magic.
Psyche, the winged goddess who adorns White Rock beverage labels, has grown more svelte, too.
"I felt exactly like Alice in Wonderland," Maria Kalinina said Sunday after her warm smile and svelte figure won over the 12 judges, who chose her from six finalists in a contest that emphasized bathing suit competition.
His former 115-inch waist is now a svelte 38. His weight has dropped from 905 and now hovers between 212 and 220.
The portly, gray-haired Oleske is portrayed in the movie by a handsome, svelte Tim Matheson.
Kary Moss, an attorney with the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, said, "They wanted a svelte-looking woman, and a pregnant woman is not svelte.
When he stepped into the ring here Saturday night against Dwight Muhammad Qawi, the eighth foe in his latest ring incarnation, he tipped the scales at a relatively svelte 235.
I don't think women want that again.' Roland Klein, whose long safari dresses in heavy, textured linen have swingy and full or svelte slim skirts, believes his customer is 'not on the hippy trail.