rachitic
Example Sentences
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A sequence of rachitic little drawings by Tracey Emin – whose monoprints are so ubiquitous as to have become museum wallpaper – cannot compete with those of her heroine, Louise Bourgeois.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2012
The man who brought the Royal Canadian Navy up from rachitic infancy to lusty manhood headed this week across the Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Short in stature, rachitic in boyhood, Adler was fascinated from youth on by the power of the human will as an antidote to physical defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most important, if the daring financial gamble is won, it may encourage other European nations with overvalued, rachitic currencies, notably France and Greece, to push through their own tough financial programs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harris gives an account of an operation upon a rachitic dwarf who was impregnated by a large man, a baby weighing 14 pounds and measuring 20 inches being delivered by the knife.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
