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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



... a graceful climax to a unique episode in the lives of both of us. There was no demoralizing interval of subterfuge and politely repressed ennui. On the other hand, it did not degenerate into one of those dreary and loosely knit liaisons, lasting on into old age. We left each other on the heights, although the cliff was ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... him in the Musee Carnavalet, drawn just before he, in his turn, went to expiate his crimes on that very guillotine, which he had sharpened and wielded so powerfully against his fellows. The artist has well caught the slouchy, slovenly look of his loosely knit figure, his long limbs and narrow head, with the snakelike eyes and slightly receding chin. Like Marat, his model and prototype, Merlin affected dirty, ragged clothes. The real Sanscullottism, the downward levelling of his fellowmen to the lowest rung ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... for it was very loosely knit together, and no bond, whether of blood or religion or tongue, bound to it the assembly of Christian and Jewish and non-Moslem races of which it was so largely composed. The Empire never grew (as, for instance, the British Empire grew) by the emigration and settlement of the Osmanli ...
— Crescent and Iron Cross • E. F. Benson



Words linked to "Loosely knit" :   distant, remote



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