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Definition of well turned in English: well turnedadjective 1(of a compliment, phrase, or verse) elegantly expressed. Example sentencesExamples - It shows its character in instrumentation, thoughtful lyrics, and well-turned phrases and doesn't slip into musical rhetoric, which tends to manifest itself in obscurity and confusion.
- He also responded to insults with more creative insults, and occasionally responded to legitimate criticisms with well-turned phrases.
- The Python gang taught me to find beauty in language and joy in a well-turned phrase.
- And if you've ever congratulated yourself on a well-turned phrase, a few pages of Riotta's prose will restore a pronounced sense of humility.
- They send me gift baskets in appreciation for a phrase well-turned, and that's great.
- Unfortunately, this too becomes irritating, as you become so preoccupied with the well-turned phrases and exotic vocabulary that the already slight storyline comes to seem almost superfluous.
- Like Virgil's, his shepherd-boys are marvellously bookish, and speak in well-turned phrases.
- But Martin balanced his ambition with an ear for winning melodies, well-turned phrases, dry wit, and an undercurrent of moroseness.
- This isn't one of those moments you can fix with a well-turned phrase.
- In one well-turned, humorous phrase, Michael steals his equally alliterative interviewer Lou's article right out from under him.
- It is a well-turned phrase but it doesn't tell the whole story.
- Astonishingly, he was commissioning his young friend John, the man of well-turned phrases, to propose marriage in his behalf.
2(especially of a person's ankle or leg) having an elegant and attractive shape. Example sentencesExamples - The theme of her new film is carried over into fashion where heaving, corseted bosoms and well-turned ankles encased in fishnets and heels are all the rage.
- He was capable of noticing a well-turned ankle.
- ‘If a man with a pot-belly has well-turned calves,’ blushes Kate, ‘he should show them off!’
- And John Davidson said that while the top model would be back, a new generation of potential supermodels were snapping at her well-turned ankles.
- It may just be us, but a fantastically well-turned set of ankles in a pair of smart courts is, suddenly, kind of kinky.
- I've always thought a well-turned phrase was like a well-turned ankle.
- This ploy was so successful that Victorian men became fainthearted at the sight of a well-turned ankle.
- He was a man of the table, the hunt and the well-turned ankle.
- Black hose revealed a well-turned leg, disappearing into puffed pumpkin hose, richly embroidered and paned in black on black.
- She tries to stand; the pain along her hips twists down her calves, the well-turned legs she is still proud of.
Synonyms well proportioned, well formed, well shaped, attractive, clean-limbed
Origin Late 16th century: originally with reference to the turning of a piece of work on a lathe. Definition of well turned in US English: well turnedadjective 1(of a compliment, phrase, or verse) elegantly expressed. Example sentencesExamples - He also responded to insults with more creative insults, and occasionally responded to legitimate criticisms with well-turned phrases.
- And if you've ever congratulated yourself on a well-turned phrase, a few pages of Riotta's prose will restore a pronounced sense of humility.
- But Martin balanced his ambition with an ear for winning melodies, well-turned phrases, dry wit, and an undercurrent of moroseness.
- Like Virgil's, his shepherd-boys are marvellously bookish, and speak in well-turned phrases.
- The Python gang taught me to find beauty in language and joy in a well-turned phrase.
- Unfortunately, this too becomes irritating, as you become so preoccupied with the well-turned phrases and exotic vocabulary that the already slight storyline comes to seem almost superfluous.
- It is a well-turned phrase but it doesn't tell the whole story.
- In one well-turned, humorous phrase, Michael steals his equally alliterative interviewer Lou's article right out from under him.
- This isn't one of those moments you can fix with a well-turned phrase.
- Astonishingly, he was commissioning his young friend John, the man of well-turned phrases, to propose marriage in his behalf.
- They send me gift baskets in appreciation for a phrase well-turned, and that's great.
- It shows its character in instrumentation, thoughtful lyrics, and well-turned phrases and doesn't slip into musical rhetoric, which tends to manifest itself in obscurity and confusion.
2(especially of an ankle or leg) having an elegant and attractive shape. Example sentencesExamples - Black hose revealed a well-turned leg, disappearing into puffed pumpkin hose, richly embroidered and paned in black on black.
- He was a man of the table, the hunt and the well-turned ankle.
- It may just be us, but a fantastically well-turned set of ankles in a pair of smart courts is, suddenly, kind of kinky.
- He was capable of noticing a well-turned ankle.
- ‘If a man with a pot-belly has well-turned calves,’ blushes Kate, ‘he should show them off!’
- This ploy was so successful that Victorian men became fainthearted at the sight of a well-turned ankle.
- And John Davidson said that while the top model would be back, a new generation of potential supermodels were snapping at her well-turned ankles.
- I've always thought a well-turned phrase was like a well-turned ankle.
- She tries to stand; the pain along her hips twists down her calves, the well-turned legs she is still proud of.
- The theme of her new film is carried over into fashion where heaving, corseted bosoms and well-turned ankles encased in fishnets and heels are all the rage.
Synonyms well proportioned, well formed, well shaped, attractive, clean-limbed
Origin Late 16th century: originally with reference to the turning of a piece of work on a lathe. |