well-turned

adjective

Definition of well-turnednext
1
as in buxom

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2
as in pithy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for well-turned
  1. buxom
  2. pithy
  3. voluptuous
  4. epigrammatic
  5. succinct
  6. well-endowed
  7. plump
  8. sententious
Adjective
  • On the balcony of his grandparents’ Florida condo, Billy spies a buxom woman lounging by the pool.
    Caroline Madden, Vulture, 8 July 2024
  • My buxom breasts and backside are also accompanied by fat on my arms, belly, and legs.
    Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2024
Definition of buxom
Adjective
  • The newsletter’s combination of pithy irreverence and countercultural credibility had proved popular and grew more so, accumulating nearly five hundred subjects.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The guiding principle of a Letterboxd review is to seem as pithy and off-the-cuff as possible.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of pithy
Adjective
  • The seductive and voluptuous Jessica Rabbit is Roger’s wife.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The minimalist brand’s look was amplified to the max by its voluptuous silhouette — defined by sharp padded shoulders and a collarless neckline, and hourglass-like angles that nipped at the waist.
    Charlie Carballo, WWD, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of voluptuous
Adjective
  • Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1791) The best and most entertaining biography ever written in English — addictive for its prescient, informal, racy prose and Johnson's epigrammatic precision and enduring decency.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Dylan is helplessly epigrammatic.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
Definition of epigrammatic
Adjective
  • These presentations often include succinct summaries of your key business functions.
    Victoria Zelefsky, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.
    CBS News, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of succinct
Adjective
  • Colleges that are less well-endowed might have fewer proxies that strain their financial aid budget, but still should use individualized proxies to meet their institutional needs.
    Scott White, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Unfortunately, as anyone else who is well-endowed can likely attest, one-pieces seldom do the girls justice.
    Brie Schwartz, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2024
Definition of well-endowed
Adjective
  • But instead of the dry, flaky mattes of our youth, these go on buttery soft and manage to cushion lips in peptides, hyaluronic acid, and botanical extracts for a hydrated, plump pout.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Most memorably are the mayor, depicted as a plump Caucasian male who performs Jackson’s famous kick, and the skeleton who dances Jackson’s iconic moonwalk.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of plump
Adjective
  • This is a bracing, even novel, perspective on a war whose film depictions so often traffic in sententious Greatest Generation platitudes.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Only the vivid image of the warped planks keeps this remark from being the type of sententious counsel that Polonius might have given his son.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
Definition of sententious
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well-turned

well (up)

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