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frail

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Alma Hitchcock, the times I saw her, was a frail, birdlike woman who looked angry about her infirmity.

He was old, frail and handcuffed; 20 minutes later they had a crime to cover up.

He opened his eyes and he held my hand with his so-very-frail one, veins showing blue through his skin.

You start losing all this weight and looking gaunt and frail.

Omran, who was 17 at the time, was completely bald, weak, and as frail as a burnt match.

I had no sooner stepped upon the frail structure when it suddenly and unaccountably gave way in the middle.

Occasionally, over a narrow stream, a frail footbridge would be built.

Her exquisite, frail beauty held a strength that mocked the worship in his eyes and voice.

He brought us again to where the frail little woman determined to fight death with death.

He was a narrow-headed man with frail-looking sloped shoulders and a thin triangle of face.

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On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to frail, such as: decrepit, feeble, fragile, infirm, sickly, and slender.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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