lank

His clean-cropped hair has grown out lank and shaggy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Her hair is lank, unwashed, and she hides herself in oversized clothes.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2022

“He looks convincingly ancient, with lank white hair and stubbly beard, and he performs with the creaky, painful movements of a weary, stiff-jointed old man.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

As toxic algal blooms in the Klamath basin's main lank threaten the also-endangered suckerfish a month earlier than "normal," water is in short supply and dead juvenile chinook salmon are found every day.

From Fox News ● Jul. 14, 2021

The draper sat upon the cobbles of the street, his hair lank, and a daughter of perhaps my age wandered about through the wreckage, picking up silks and attempting to drag them back inside.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

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 Harry Alverson Franck

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 B. M. Bower

These birds are the size of a turkey-cock; but they are lanker and more angular in form.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross

The old man rubbed his bristling jaw, that seemed even lanker than when Bartley saw it last.

From A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

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

West Virginia hogs are the longest, lankest, boniest animals in creation.

From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty

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 Wilhelm Hauff

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 John L. Stephens