lankiness

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Bruce Wayne’s pronounced jawline and the Joker’s lankiness are other examples.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2023

The 21st century offers a more subjective take on mainstream attractiveness that favors lankiness and femininity.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2021

People tend to describe her as “lanky” given her 5-foot-11, but here’s a reminder how lankiness can exist without gawkiness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

“You have to live it,” says Maksimtsov, a giant at 6-foot-4, whose outward lankiness belies an explosive inner strength.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2018

The lankiness of limb, and the lankness of feature and hair, sufficiently pleasing in poor Ted, stretched forth at his long length yonder, were not such agreeable characteristics in the mother.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.