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scrawny
[skraw-nee]
adjective
excessively thin; lean; scraggy.
a long, scrawny neck.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms: ,
scrawny
/ ˈɔːɪ /
adjective
very thin and bony; scraggy
meagre or stunted
scrawny vegetation
Other 51Թ Forms
- scrawnily adverb
- scrawniness noun
- ˈɲԾ adverb
- ˈɲԾԱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of scrawny1
Example Sentences
West Sacramento has long been the region’s scrawny stepchild of a municipality.
More than two years later, video showed the scrawny teen calling out for his mother as five officers piled onto him.
An explanation for the condition came near the end of World War II, when René Spitz, an Austrian psychoanalyst, observed that infants in a Mexican orphanage tended to be listless, scrawny and slow to develop.
Was it open wide enough for a scrawny seven-year-old to fit through?
Outweighed by more than 30 pounds, the scrawny, gritty Harrelson got the worst of it.
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