lank

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synonyms for lank

On this page you'll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lank, such as: all skin and bones, angular, attenuate, attenuated, beanpole, and beanstalk.

How to use lank in a sentence

  • The soubrette had a lank young body neatly attired in a store suit and shirt-waist.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • His hair and brows and lashes were paler than straw, and his long lank figure was without either distinction or muscularity.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • The master manhunter wheeled, saw the lank figure of Jeff Weedham standing in the door.

  • The door of the rotunda swings open, admitting the tall, lank figure of the Deputy Warden.

    Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
  • He had the Yankee body, lank and ribbed, and was so tall that his head seemed always looking over a transom.

    The Woman Gives | Owen Johnson

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