dicionário francês - Inglês

maigre inglês:

1. scanty

Any woman now seems to be able to make such a complaint and to be believed, with incredibly scanty evidence.

The rice crop was scanty this year.

Inglês palavra "maigre"(scanty) ocorre em conjuntos:

Fiches du livre - "The Trap" (Betsy Curtis)
Fiches du livre - "Chardin" (Paul G. Konody)
Fiches du livre - "Hot Planet" (Hal Clement)
Fiches du livre - "Summer" (Dallas Lore Sharp)
Fiches du livre - "Winter" (Dallas Lore Sharp)

2. shabbily

shabbily dressed, shabbily treated

shabbily dressed man

Inglês palavra "maigre"(shabbily) ocorre em conjuntos:

Fiches du livre - "Passing By" (Maurice Baring)
Fiches du livre - "A Doll's House" (Henrik Ibsen)
Fiches du livre - "The Moons of Mars" (Dean Evans)
Fiches du livre - "Beautiful Birds" (Edmund Selous)
Fiches du livre - "Caught In The Net" (Emile Gabor...

3. meagre

meagre supplies of food

Her earnings, though meagre, satisfy her needs.

they’d been robbed of all their meagre possessions

Inglês palavra "maigre"(meagre) ocorre em conjuntos:

Fiches du livre - "Turnover Point" (Alfred Coppel)
Fiches du livre - "A Bundle of Letters" (Henry James)
Fiches du livre - "A Pioneer Mother" (Hamlin Garland)
Fiches du livre - "The Bombardment of Reims" (Barr...
Fiches du livre - "Hochelagans and Mohawks" (W. D....

4. skinny

She was painfully skinny.

He opened his eyes and saw standing over him the skinny pale body of the doctor

It's more polite to say thin than skinny.

That man is skinny, but his wife is fat.

Would you ever go skinny dipping?

You're too skinny, you should eat more.

- It's so skinny. - So are you.

I was terrified when I saw this skinny boy, he said that he didn't eat since Monday!

My sister's skinny and me, I'm chubby.

Nowadays, models tend to be skinny.

a skinny model

He was thin before he went on that diet. Now, he’s skinny.

Some professional models look too skinny in my opinion

She's too skinny and looks quite ill!

The neighborhood has been gentrified. Now it's teeming with pretend hipsters slurping skinny lattes at Starbucks. They gather round coffee and free Wi-Fi like bees round a honeypot.

Inglês palavra "maigre"(skinny) ocorre em conjuntos:

Fiches du livre - "Hopalong Cassidy" (Clarence E. ...
Fiches du livre - "Love Letters of a Rookie to Jul...
Character and physical appearance - Le caractère e...
Fiches du livre - "The Boy Scouts of Bob's Hill A ...
First vocabulary

5. skimpiest

Inglês palavra "maigre"(skimpiest) ocorre em conjuntos:

Fiches du livre - "The Ffolliots of Redmarley" (L....
Fiches du livre - "Pieces of Hate And Other Enthus...
Fiches du livre - "That Last Waif or Social Quaran...
Fiches du livre - "The Spell of the White Sturgeon...

6. lean

You lean on your parents too much. You must be more independent.

Please don't lean out of the window when we're moving.

He has a strong shoulder for you to lean on.

Her husband is a nice-looking man who is a little on the lean side.

After few months of training he became lean.

He leaned towards her. / Chicken meat is very lean. / My girlfriend is very lean because she eats healthy. / I lost my job and someone stole my car, it was a lean month.

Should I lean my head forwards or backwards if I have a nosebleed?

lean amine

leaned/bryt. leant

Emphasizing its postural lean characteristic, the term ‘tango apilado’ has often been used as a synonym for 'tango milonguero'.

Yea, would to God, I were among the roses, That lean to kiss you as you float between While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses A bud uncloses, to touch you, my queen.

There was a silence. Harry leaned still closer to the door, desperate to hear more.

The company recovered well after going through several lean years.

The meat was so lean that it almost melted in the mouth.

All I could mumble in response was that when I was a man of fifty, my mother would lean out of the window when I left and remind me not to drive too fast.

Inglês palavra "maigre"(lean) ocorre em conjuntos:

Fiches du livre - "Handyman" (Frank Banta)
Fiches du livre - "Fun and Nonsense" (Willard Bonte)