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
“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
I can see, even from a distance, that the king's lank hair is damp with sweat, and his long cheeks are streaked with tears.
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 rounder it is the stiffer and lanker.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
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
Dicky grew slighter and lanker, dark about the eyes, and weaker.
From A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
"My land! he's lanker 'n a bean-pole," exclaimed Mrs. Eichorn, in disgust.
From Lovey Mary by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
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 John L. Stephens
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
Vocabulary lists containing lank
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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