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long-limbed
adjective as in gangling
adjective as in gangly
adjective as in rangy
Example Sentences
From his earliest youth Pierre Franois, handsome and long-limbed, hot-blooded and vain, thirsted after adventure.
A gaunt, long-limbed man, his clothes hung on his arms and legs as if they were the wooden limbs of a scarecrow.
He was reminded of the flight of time only by the growth of his son—a gawky, long-limbed boy.
Down the centre of that ran a pergola, over which climbed in tangled luxuriance the long-limbed tribes of climbing roses.
His mule was a long-limbed, raw-boned animal, whose gait never varied from an excruciatingly hard trot.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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