leanly
- adverb
- /ˈlinli/
:
delgadamente
- Categorizing project data sources helps keep a project running leanly and speeds up the decision-making process with more pointed information.
- leanly muscled
And so we did a great job, I think, as an underdog campaign, very leanly staffed.
- And so we did a great job, I think, as an underdog campaign, very leanly staffed.
Examples
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He saw a tall, leanly built man with dark hair carefully combed back from a long, sleepy face.
Fiction book (1990) -
He'd removed his shirt, and his chest, leanly muscular beneath matted frizzy graying-brown hairs, gleamed with perspiration.
Fiction book (1995) -
Familiarity with the structure of deals, whether hostile or friendly, also helps. "Experience means that there are fewer novel questions, so you can staff more leanly," maintains Heleniak.
Academic text (1998) -
And both of them, the sheepish Wolfowitz and the leanly wolfish lamb (so seemingly tough in his political readiness to trim, so innocent about the big world that he thinks he knows so much about), were fooled by their respective years in Indonesia.
Blog text (3) -
The first guy, Detective Brooks, was tall, a couple of inches over six feet, and leanly muscled.
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He saw a tall, leanly built man with dark hair carefully combed back from a long, sleepy face.
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He'd removed his shirt, and his chest, leanly muscular beneath matted frizzy graying-brown hairs, gleamed with perspiration.
Synonyms
Moving in a thin, graceful way
In a thin graceful way
Using only a small amount
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word leanly comes from the simple English word lean meaning 'thin' or 'not having extra', plus the adverb ending -ly. So to act leanly is to do something in a spare, careful way without waste, like a room with only a bed or a business that avoids extra cost.