lank
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His clean-cropped hair has grown out lank and shaggy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
He has lank hair to his shoulders and owlish glasses; he looks like he might start shaving in a year or two.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2022
Her hair is lank, unwashed, and she hides herself in oversized clothes.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2022
“A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black,//A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl//Make him the quaint great figure that men love,//The prairie-lawyer, master of us all.”
From Fox News ● Feb. 13, 2019
Merope, huddled beside the window, her head bowed and her face hidden by her lank hair, said nothing.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
There’s one scene in which she backcombs it in a garage forecourt before reappearing, her hair lanker than ever.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2015
"My land! he's lanker 'n a bean-pole," exclaimed Mrs. Eichorn, in disgust.
From Lovey Mary by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
One or two I knew who insisted on sticking to "principles," and they grew leaner and lanker day by day.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson
Dicky grew slighter and lanker, dark about the eyes, and weaker.
From A Child of the Jago by Morrison, Arthur
Dill, looking to Billy longer and lanker and mere melancholy than ever, caressed his chin meditatively and regarded Billy in his wistful, half-deprecating way.
From The Long Shadow by Bower, B. M.
Male Bonding are not the first non-US band to be on Sub Pop, but it still feels like a gesture, even an assertion of sorts, albeit a drawled one muffled by the lankest of fringes.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2010
The second man of the trio was the lankest and leanest person in the whole forest, and was called Slim Schlurker.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm
West Virginia hogs are the longest, lankest, boniest animals in creation.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John
He was the puniest, lankest, and leanest of any we had seen on the hacienda, and his single garment was the dirtiest.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.
Vocabulary lists containing lank
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Let's Go Caroling, List 1
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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