lank
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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
“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
On the field, the Patriots trailed with 2:05 to go, when here came that lank, cool-hand Brady, driving them 77 yards in an astonishing 77 seconds, with four javelin passes to Rob Gronkowski.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2017
The children sat opposite the king, staring at his milky face and weak chin and lank, wet-looking hair.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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
The old man rubbed his bristling jaw, that seemed even lanker than when Bartley saw it last.
From A Modern Instance by Howells, William Dean
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.
He was lying back in the seat with his eyes closed, and the posture made his face seem even lanker and grimmer than it had at first appeared.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Of course I could not send them to school—they would only grow lanker.
From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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
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.
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
Vocabulary lists containing lank
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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