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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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"Slim" Quotes from Famous Books

... relative, could not help them. It made me feel a pretty mean man, I can tell you. Your mother did not say much about her circumstances, but it did not need that. I knew that John had retired from the navy with little besides his half-pay, and that her pension as his widow must be a mighty slim one. Altogether I had a pretty bad time of it. However, I took a tall oath that the next rich strike I made the dollars should not be thrown away. I reckoned that you would be out before long; for it was certain that if you were a lad of ...

— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty

... one chance to save me," he said quietly, "and that, a slim one. It bleeds—if I could only get ...

— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... slim little white statue—so like her in its pallor and frailty of feature and limb that they only gasped and then fell to whispering behind their hands at the resemblance. And somehow, too, as they stared, ...

— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans

... came a maiden, young by seeming, of scarce twenty summers; fair of face as a flower; grey-eyed, brown-haired, with lips full and red, slim and gentle of body. Simple was her array, of a short and strait green gown, so that on her right ankle was clear to see ...

— The Wood Beyond the World • William Morris

... tightly drawn the cruel chains Clasped the slim ankles and the wounded hands, But with soft, cringing attitudes in vain She strove to shield her from that ardent glance. So, clinging to the walls of some old manse, The rose-vine strives to shield her tender flowers, When the rude wind, as autumn weeks advance, Beats ...

— Poems • Alan Seeger

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