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Scrawny   /skrˈɔni/   Listen
Scrawny

adjective
1.
Being very thin.  Synonyms: boney, scraggy, skinny, underweight, weedy.  "A long scrawny neck"
2.
Inferior in size or quality.  Synonyms: scrubby, stunted.  "Scrubby cut-over pine" , "Old stunted thorn trees"





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"Scrawny" Quotes from Famous Books



... more chipper in my life," I made flippant answer, "and I adore these people who are forever telling one how unusually thin, or pale, or scrawny one ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... statues had already spread abroad, and their first questions revealed that this was the case. It was even stated that the old sage's house was to be torn down, and within a few hours. This was vehemently contradicted; but a tall, scrawny man seemed to have undertaken to defend ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


Words linked to "Scrawny" :   scrawniness, lean, thin, inferior


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