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scrawny

adjective as in unhealthily thin

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Plants potted in lunar dirt were far scrawnier than those grown in volcanic material from Earth.

The cat was so small and scrawny that Mike’s mother decided he needed a big name.

I asked a scrawny 15-year-old boy who works at a candy packaging facility about how he sees his future.

Toward the end of the cycle, the birds are scrawnier, their fat stores depleted over the months of cold, so they tend to start huddling at warmer temperatures.

If scrawny little Tutankhamun can do it, a badass like Khufu could probably cause them to spontaneously combust.

He was still achieving in school and sports, though less brilliantly than before, and was somewhat small and scrawny.

He grew up a scrawny kid with nagging allergy problems in a suburb of Stockholm.

A few are recovering from eating disorders; their cheeks are hollow and their scrawny arms droop like slack rubber bands.

She bore Marneffe a child, a stunted, scrawny urchin named Stanislas.

Bluish dawnlight seemed to tint their scrawny bare arms and legs a deeper, ghastly blue.

Their sales of scrawny cattle jist about paid the taxes en bought their salt en terbacker.

A stub of a root and two scrawny plum branches would at any time arouse my imagination like the circus posters' appeal to a boy.

The squatter lifted it up with infinite tenderness, binding the rags more closely about the scrawny body.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scrawny, such as: bony, lanky, skinny, angular, gaunt, and lank.

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

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