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shapely

Adjective

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Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.

Fit; suitable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. Louis-Ferdinand Céline

We hope the "real" person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell. John Updike

Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions? J. M. Coetzee

To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't. Katey Sagal

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox. Marilyn Monroe

I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her. Bruce Forsyth

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