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View definitions for leggy

leggy

adjective as in gangling

adjective as in gangly

adjective as in rangy

adjective as in spindling

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Example Sentences

Producers, he says, like to pan out from the glass-topped anchor desks to get a shot of the leggy correspondents.

He may launch a television or radio talk show, with his lovely, leggy young wife as co-host.

By the time she was a leggy teen, Frosted was spending every spare moment at "the flickers."

Among her other assets, McCaughey has the leggy blonde Ann Coulter-looks that producers like in their right wingers.

As a girl she had been what a certain sporting earl described as "a leggy beauty."

Parson Leggy was the other would-be mediator; for he hated to see the two principal parishioners of his tiny cure at enmity.

"As quick as a cat, with the heart of a lion and the temper of Nick's self," was Parson Leggy's description.

Parson Leggy declared roundly that his like had not been seen since the days of Rex son of Rally.

Parson Leggy danced an unclerical jig, and shook hands with the squire till both those fine old gentlemen were purple in the face.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to leggy, such as: awkward, bony, gawky, lanky, long-legged, and long-limbed.

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

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