Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a soft skin; specifically, in zoology, malacodermatous.

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Examples

  • Instead, they went after the lesser-known "petits ma î tres" (mainly 18th-century French paintings, 17th - through early 19th-century Italian and French sculptures), usually following their private tastes for soft-skinned, sensuous women and muscular naked men, whether suave and still or erotically writhing.

    Nice Wing, Pity About the Art David Littlejohn 2010

  • In addition, the audit details how IRI bought six armored vehicles and four "soft-skinned" vehicles for $689,500 without getting prior approval from the State Department's grants officer.

    International Republican Institute's Use Of U.S. Grants Criticized By Watchdog 2010

  • Probably quite a few, I conclude, if the reward is a cooler full of food and a soft-skinned mammal trapped in a treehouse.

    Where the Wild Things Are Peter Wonacott 2010

  • Modern armies were dependent on massive amounts of logistical support, and that meant a steady flow of trucks between the railheads and the front lines to reinforce and resupply the steady movement of tanks and soft-skinned vehicles at the front.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • Modern armies were dependent on massive amounts of logistical support, and that meant a steady flow of trucks between the railheads and the front lines to reinforce and resupply the steady movement of tanks and soft-skinned vehicles at the front.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • No, the low-cut bodices revealing heaving bosoms, the blood trickling down soft-skinned necks, the harems of female vampires charged with titillating lesbianism, the magnetic gaze of the dark demon himself — these are all in the service of sensationalism now.

    Notes from New Sodom: On Blood, Bad Boys and Bottoms by Hal Duncan 2009

  • About 350 million years ago, it began to encounter something new—soft-skinned amphibians slithering around in the muck.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • In South Africa baby pattypans are a staple at most supermarkets - probably about the size of a plum, and soft-skinned, so you halve them, steam them, and serve them slathered in butter and black pepper.

    Don't Pattypan-ic! Annemarie 2009

  • Had they been concentrated into, say, four or five dedicated armoured divisions which were then deployed south of the German line of advance they could have then driven into their lines of communications, composed of a mass of soft-skinned vehicles and horse-drawn transport.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

  • Had they been concentrated into, say, four or five dedicated armoured divisions which were then deployed south of the German line of advance they could have then driven into their lines of communications, composed of a mass of soft-skinned vehicles and horse-drawn transport.

    Of New Kit, New Tricks and Cavalry 2007

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