List of synonyms from "lighten" to synonyms from "like a clam"
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Definition of the day : « lightweight »
- adj inconsequential
- I should like him to be a lightweight, so as to be able to ride with me.
- Extract from : « Won by the Sword » by G.A. Henty
- He entered in the lightweight class in the Harvard Gymnasium, March 22, 1879.
- Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt » by Edmund Lester Pearson
- At any rate our lightweight is one point in our favour, and another is our light-hands.
- Extract from : « The Sportswoman's Library, v. 2 » by Various
- He was a football player and a lightweight boxer of no mean ability.
- Extract from : « The Rope of Gold » by Roy J. Snell
- Many in fact would have had no hesitation in classing him as a lightweight.
- Extract from : « Baseball Joe on the Giants » by Lester Chadwick
- Fortunately I was a lightweight, or I might have been killed.
- Extract from : « Rujub, the Juggler » by G. A. Henty
- In his own college days he had been the lightweight champion of his class.
- Extract from : « The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall » by Spencer Davenport
- It was an important match—for the lightweight championship of the world.
- Extract from : « The Native Son » by Inez Haynes Irwin
- A short distance behind the runabout was a lightweight truck.
- Extract from : « The Black Star » by Johnston McCulley
- He was now clinging to the reins with both hands, and, being a muscular lad and no lightweight, his bulk told.
- Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle » by Victor Appleton