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Loosely knit   /lˈusli nɪt/   Listen
Loosely knit

adjective
1.
Having only distant social or legal ties.






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"Loosely knit" Quotes from Famous Books



... that sunny afternoon she lay in the chaise-longue, alternately reading and dreaming, her scented bonbons at her elbow. Later a maid brought tea; and a little later Duane Mallett was announced. He sauntered in, a loosely knit, graceful figure, still wearing his riding-clothes and dusty ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... impartiality," and throughout the play Fielding's splendid figure may be felt, swinging his satiric club with a boisterous enjoyment. The immediate success achieved by the piece was certainly not due to any great dramatic excellence; and that so loosely knit a medley as PASQUIN, a Dramatic Satire on the Times: Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd THE ELECTION and a Tragedy, call'd The Life and Death of COMMON-SENSE should have achieved almost as long a run as the Beggars ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden



Words linked to "Loosely knit" :   distant, remote



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