rachitic

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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

U.N. experts figured that it would need at least $450 million to care for an estimated 20 million semi-starved and rachitic waifs for a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Peacock Station, Va., Farmer Paul Rhinehart, 76, stood before a rachitic barn and pointed to Marian and Irma Zielezinski, who were feeding a yardful of clamorous chickens.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was short of stature, spindle-shanked, rachitic and malformed, and of his face, with its colossal nose, loose mouth and shallow brow, Giovio says that "it was the ugliest ever seen on man."

From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael