lank
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But the choice to give Kate aggressively lank, greasy, unkempt hair makes her a lot less watchable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
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
She had the glummest face Harry had ever seen, half-hidden behind lank hair and thick, pearly spectacles.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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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
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
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
Of course I could not send them to school—they would only grow lanker.
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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
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
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
West Virginia hogs are the longest, lankest, boniest animals in creation.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty
Vocabulary lists containing lank
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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