lank

His clean-cropped hair has grown out lank and shaggy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Her hair is lank, unwashed, and she hides herself in oversized clothes.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2022

As toxic algal blooms in the Klamath basin's main lank threaten the also-endangered suckerfish a month earlier than "normal," water is in short supply and dead juvenile chinook salmon are found every day.

From Fox News ● Jul. 14, 2021

That October, she watched a 59-year-old man named Kenneth Lindsey enter the office, his lean arms hanging lank by his side, his face gaunt and pale.

From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2019

"We'll take the horse too," said another of them, a woman shorter than Robb, with a broad flat face and lank yellow hair.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

There’s one scene in which she backcombs it in a garage forecourt before reappearing, her hair lanker than ever.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2015

One or two I knew who insisted on sticking to "principles," and they grew leaner and lanker day by day.

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson

The tutor's shadow, longer, lanker, and more grotesque than himself, mopped and mowed upon the wall beside him.

From The Brownies and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

There was also his board-bill to be settled at the end of each week; and Salmon saw his slender purse grow lank and lanker than ever, with no means within his reach of replenishing it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

So as he grew bigger and fatter, she grew thinner and lanker, till you would hardly have recognized this long, gaunt, white fur bag of bones for the plump beast of the previous autumn.

From Children of the Wild by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

Male Bonding are not the first non-US band to be on Sub Pop, but it still feels like a gesture, even an assertion of sorts, albeit a drawled one muffled by the lankest of fringes.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2010

He was the puniest, lankest, and leanest of any we had seen on the hacienda, and his single garment was the dirtiest.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by Stephens, John L.

West Virginia hogs are the longest, lankest, boniest animals in creation.

From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John

The second man of the trio was the lankest and leanest person in the whole forest, and was called Slim Schlurker.

From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Hauff, Wilhelm