leanness

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Leanness and agility have become the mantras of the marketing world, but rather than truly acting like startups, big agencies are simply acquiring them.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2013

Leanness, plus stern cost accounting and higher-paid creative people, is enabling the big agencies to concentrate on better advertising.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leanness, or a wasted condition of the body.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Leanness is another Token of a Lover; to obtain which, you need not take Physick; sitting up all Night; and writing Love-Letters, will bring this about.

From The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love by Fielding, Henry

You say so, but the Horses would tell me another Tale, if they could but speak: Though indeed their Leanness speaks loud enough.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius