scrawnyadjective
uk/ˈskrɔː.ni/us/ˈskrɑː.ni/unpleasantly thin, often with bones showing:
He came home after three months at college looking terribly scrawny.
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Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)
- anorexic
- bag of bones
- be skin and bone(s) idiom
- elfin
- emaciated
- hatchet-faced
- lissome
- lithe
- pinched
- rangy
- skinny
- slenderize
- slight
- spare
- spindly
- sylphlike
- trim
- underweight
- waif-like
- wiry
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