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scrawny

adjective as in unhealthily thin

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“He came here as a scrawny kicker at 100 pounds,” Walsh said.

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West Sacramento has long been the region’s scrawny stepchild of a municipality.

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More than two years later, video showed the scrawny teen calling out for his mother as five officers piled onto him.

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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.

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Was it open wide enough for a scrawny seven-year-old to fit through?

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