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Letterman is a senior-citizen-aged lanky Midwesterner who is clever but never too edgy with his guests.
The lanky, scandal-scarred former Congressman and purveyor of the now colloquial sext, has lived and died by the tweet.
The Clintons were taking a gamble by embracing the lanky onetime long shot who now stepped up to take the oath.
The heads are the only large aspects of these characters; no one appears tall or lanky.
Yet it is no exaggeration to say this lanky Texan with prodigious talent fired a huge salvo in the thawing of the Cold War.
Even Tim, so fine and big, had in this homely, lanky man a rival well worth watching.
My lean and lanky form filled out, and I became familiar with the greeting of my friends: “Why, how well you look!”
Weston I had always known as a lanky man, but about his loosely fitting garments there had been an air of careless distinction.
The officer in charge assigns me to a machine occupied by a lanky prisoner in stripes.
I was one of those long, lanky, loose-jointed girls Who fool people into believing They are willowy and psychic and mysterious.
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On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lanky, such as: angular, gangly, gaunt, rangy, scrawny, and slender.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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