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CURLY
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Irregular inflected forms: curlier , curliest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of hair) having curls or waves
Example:
they envied her naturally curly hair
Classified under:
Similar:
curled; curling ((of hair) making curls or having been made to curl)
crisp; frizzly; frizzy; kinky; nappy ((of hair) in small tight curls)
permed ((of hair) styled with permanent waves)
ringleted ((of hair) shaped into ringlets)
wavy ((of hair) having waves)
Attribute:
curliness; waviness ((of hair) a tendency to curl)
Antonym:
straight ((of hair) having no waves or curls)
Derivation:
curl (a strand or cluster of hair)
curliness ((of hair) a tendency to curl)
Context examples:
She is a little girl, in a spencer, with a round face and curly flaxen hair.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Curly rushed her antagonist, who struck again and leaped aside.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
All quiet, curtains down at the lower windows, servants out of sight, and nothing human visible but a curly black head leaning on a thin hand at the upper window.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was, now, a huge, strong fellow of six feet high, broad in proportion, and round-shouldered; but with a simpering boy's face and curly light hair that gave him quite a sheepish look.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Curly was the victim.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"In spite of the curly crop, I don't see the 'son Jo' whom I left a year ago," said Mr. March.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I really thought she was, she had been so short with me; but I was quite mistaken: for she laid aside her work (which was a stocking of her own), and opening her arms wide, took my curly head within them, and gave it a good squeeze.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My head feels deliciously light and cool, and the barber said I could soon have a curly crop, which will be boyish, becoming, and easy to keep in order.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
For my own part, I looked on Mr. Jack Maldon as a modern Sindbad, and pictured him the bosom friend of all the Rajahs in the East, sitting under canopies, smoking curly golden pipes—a mile long, if they could be straightened out.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This unassuming style promotes study, that's why we adopt it, returned Laurie, who certainly could not be accused of vanity, having voluntarily sacrificed a handsome curly crop to the demand for quarter-inch-long stubble.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
