Definition of "slenderly" []

• Thinly, slightly, delicately. (adverb)

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• "The coming Obama campaign will make a fuss over the Detroit bailout, helped by slenderly informed commentators who declare it an amazing success."
• "I had no compass with me, and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world, that the sun was of little benefit to me."
• "And she was so slenderly and prettily the woman -- the girl, rather -- that it cut him like a knife to see her, with quick, comprehensive eyes and sharply imperative voice, superintend the launching of the whale-boat through the surf."