What's the difference between lissome and lithesome?

Lissome


Definition:

  • (a.) Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
  • (a.) Light; nimble; active.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pilic certainly did not like umpires and was a lean-boned and lissome athlete on court; off it he could be broodily dark and explosive.
  • (2) He looked up to see a lissome figure with gentle brown eyes that held a profundity of experience rarely encountered in someone of her age.
  • (3) Then it's off  out to treat the world to the sight of their lissom frames, youthful musculature and poreless, naturally lambent skin whose glow seems to reach out and greet the sun as a cousin.
  • (4) It’s also put together with a lissom confidence and a breeziness that more than compensates for a gossamer lightness when it comes to substance.” Hail, Caesar!
  • (5) Last year, Lebedev shut down another of his newspapers, the Moscow Korrespondent, after it published a story about Putin's alleged affair with a lissom Olympic gymnast.
  • (6) Inevitably, the Mediterranean sunlight on lissom flesh restores Rochefort's creative mojo.
  • (7) This was featured in TV documentaries, a half-fictional film, Scandal (1989), and the ghosted autobiographies of Christine Keeler, the lissom young woman whose naked form he chased around the pool at Cliveden, the Buckinghamshire stately home, with its then owner Lord ("Bill") Astor.

Lithesome


Definition:

  • (a.) Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.

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