One word

Lissome

Word of the day on 09 January 2010.

Winning tweet

74
Points
catmar604
Sure, I've been called lissome. Whenever I fall flat on my ass, I have this elegant way of adjusting my knickers.

Good uses

  • DaveCurry
    74
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    With lissome fingers and dashing finesse the daring pickpocket's trade was a pilfering success.
  • ultracutebot
    62
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    being lissome may be bliss for some but being clumsy makes for great comedy.
  • drchavi
    61
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    Her lissome moves enticed/she was the devil in disguise/Falling in love was not advised/panthers seldom make good wives.
  • navinsasikumar
    57
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    On a starry desert night/ By a bonfire's light/ Watching lissome damsels belly dance/ By their movements I'm entranced
  • SJHatzi
    44
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    The lissome beauty caught the thief. Grace carried him away.
  • DrMobs
    43
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    OH: My wife has a very petiite and lissome body. She's just protecting it by keeping it wrapped in fat.
  • TiddK
    43
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    The minds of the Artwiculati are so lissome that words are transformed into shapes of beauty
  • harrarp
    42
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    That very word: lissome. Really sounds like something that's too hard to get hold of. It even slithered out of my dictionary.
  • Ysabeluna
    41
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    blessed are the lissome / for they make us loathsome / to want some, be healthy & be lissome / #poetry
  • MaxRaunchiness
    40
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    Man, look at the way that lissome pole-dancer moves. Makes me wanna be the pole.
  • caslexplorers
    40
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    lissome desuetude : graceful exit
  • revhappiness
    40
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    His lissome movements with his zimmer frame made the old ladies of the nursing home drop their dentures like giddy schoolgirls.
  • kado56
    40
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    Lissome literature - elegantly written stories with a twist
  • SurrealThing
    40
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    Lissome up, men, I want this march lithe, quick and graceful - by the left, lithe, quick and graceful march! left, right, left, right...
  • lithiumzombie
    39
    Points
    "You're not lissome? But people call you Rubberman!" / "I'm in tires."
  • bumfuzzled2004
    38
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    Lissome till she tripped / Graceful on her high spiked heels / Men impressed at first #haiku #artwiculate
  • Fatal_Romantic
    38
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    Lissome limbs entwined/Lovers urgent lips combined/Saturday brunch date. #haiku #artwiculate
  • marcosarroyos
    38
    Points
    The lissome burglar moved stealthily on cat's feet thru the upscale home selectively choosing what he wanted to take.
  • CaliforniaKara
    37
    Points
    While the early bird may catch the worm, the lissome one catches two.
  • smeedha
    37
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    She may be lissome but she shall not be swayed
  • JonPowles
    37
    Points
    St Retch, the patron saint of lissome. He's so flexible it makes you want to puke.
  • tama001
    36
    Points
    My cat had a lissome and mellifluous cat's meows. #artwiculate
  • AdeleWard
    36
    Points
    He'd bend over backwards to be lissome .... #Artwiculate
  • tWordBird
    35
    Points
    Within wailing winds ~ Weeping willow sways but stays ~ Lissome limbs limber. #haiku #Artwiculate
  • TheSupercargo
    35
    Points
    She kissed me like a child, a lissome little child, but though she kissed me as a child would do, she clung on longer than she needed to.
  • SaraiLune
    34
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    Under my skin, some lissome poison - The snake's song reaching my heart - Death's dancing
  • 2tweested
    33
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    “He was a lissome prick, deftly inserting himself where he didn’t belong and quickly pulling out of a tight situation.”
  • akhkoshur
    33
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    That lissome lass , set the fire on the fashion pass, with her class and ass
  • osmarjardim
    33
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    TaiChiChuan helps one getting lissome, lovesome, joysome, handsome, gladsome, frolicsome, healthsome and some others somes.
  • ecoflic
    32
    Points
    Jellyfish. Lissome & diaphanous. Disappointingly, don't come in tasty flavours. Evolution obviously not customer-led.
  • Lomnoir
    31
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    Lissome lips are an asset for any successful sycophant.
  • dmriver
    31
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    @kado56 Can you lead a horse to water with your lissome buckets through the frozen furrows?
  • lagadu123
    31
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    I've told her over and over what it takes to be nimble and lithe, but she never lissome s to my advice
  • DrJillZ
    30
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    @artwiculate Her lissome fingers played the Minute Waltz in 53 seconds.
  • OddlyStarry
    30
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    The interface between Twitter and Artwiculate certainly cannot be described as lissome. :)
  • HourlyDavidson
    30
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    Lissome up! You better stretch.
  • rickybobbygpig
    30
    Points
    peanut butter muffles a lissome tongue
  • Eridanus
    29
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    Tidd was sophisticated, intelligent, lissome - and dangerous. Bond must know if she were on his side. Cooperate - or eliminate?
  • MaryJenkins
    29
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    Jack, listen. Be quick and be lissome, or your buttocks, goodbye you can kiss 'em.
  • chrisdetar
    28
    Points
    Mother knew it would be a long night and year when her daughter's clothing began to match her lissome movements.
  • pranavmukul
    28
    Points
    Where there is a lissome there is a sway.
  • goldenskye
    28
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    Little elf-child ever lively; he dashes here and there. Follow now his lissome figure to find adventure - who knows where?
  • bwlight
    27
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    Lissome moments shared by longtime lovers ~ the private dance of knowing #artwiculate
  • whistlechick
    27
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    My hefty feline, / lissome in her younger years,/ haunting her food dish.
  • sanmeera
    26
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    Pulchritudinous bucolic song, his amiable dulcet voice and lissome effervescent moves, left a vestige in shores of my mind.

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