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curvy

or curv·ey

[ kur-vee ]

adjective

, curv·i·er, curv·i·est.
  1. Informal. curvaceous.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of curvy1

First recorded in 1900–05; curve + -y 1

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Example Sentences

Then he generated a line that was curvy enough to fit the average closely and fit it to the counties he was tasked with analyzing.

Not included in the gathering were journalists who might like to attend such an event and perhaps ask questions with a bit more bearing on the public good than those coming from the curvy couch of “Fox & Friends.”

Yet xenobots — each about half a millimeter wide — can swim through very thin tubes and traverse curvy mazes.

A year later, after testing everything from hiking-specific leggings to “curvy” performance denim, these are still the best-fitting and most functional pants I own.

Major brands like Patagonia and Marmot only recently began carrying extended sizes, and even so, finding active pants for curvy people that aren’t leggings is nearly impossible.

A curvy woman, dressed entirely in black, gingerly ambles down the stairs, nearly tripping over the bottom step.

Kim Kardashian We spied, with our little eyes, something that may not have been as curvy as it appeared.

There were pleated, poncho-style tops worn in layers with curvy hemlines and rounded arms that bounced around a pencil-like skirt.

The jokes hinge on stereotypes: black people like curvy women and know how to get down on a dance floor.

Snoop has come prepared with a bottle of cognac shaped like a curvy lady.

Her curly hair, her curvy mouth, the dimple, and the contour of the face were his.

But there she was, no longer flat-walking and coughing and thin and wax-skinned, but golden-brown and curvy and bouncy.

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