lank

But the choice to give Kate aggressively lank, greasy, unkempt hair makes her a lot less watchable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

He has lank hair to his shoulders and owlish glasses; he looks like he might start shaving in a year or two.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2022

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

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2022

“A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black,//A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl//Make him the quaint great figure that men love,//The prairie-lawyer, master of us all.”

From Fox News ● Feb. 13, 2019

A young man, about the king’s age, with a thin, pale face, a nose like an eagle’s beak, lank, dark hair, and a weak chin.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

The old man rubbed his bristling jaw, that seemed even lanker than when Bartley saw it last.

From A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

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 Harry Alverson Franck

These birds are the size of a turkey-cock; but they are lanker and more angular in form.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross

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

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

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

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

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 Wilhelm Hauff

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 John L. Stephens