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lean
CONTENT RELATED TO
LEAN
What Does The Phrase “Lean In” Mean?
You can thank Sheryl Sandberg for popularizing the phrase "lean in." Turns out it has been used for years in different ways, but has exploded in use now.
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WORDS RELATED TO
LEAN
droop
verb
hang down; languish
bend
dangle
decline
depress
diminish
drop
fade
fail
faint
fall down
flag
lean
let down
loll
lop
sag
settle
sink
sling
slouch
slump
subside
suspend
weaken
wilt
wither
drooped
verb
hang down; languish
bend
dangle
decline
depress
diminish
drop
fade
fail
faint
fall down
flag
lean
let down
loll
lop
sag
settle
sink
sling
slouch
slump
subside
suspend
weaken
wilt
wither
droops
verb
hang down; languish
bend
dangle
decline
depress
diminish
drop
fade
fail
faint
fall down
flag
lean
let down
loll
lop
sag
settle
sink
sling
slouch
slump
subside
suspend
weaken
wilt
wither
emaciated
adjective
undernourished; thin
anorexic
atrophied
attenuate
attenuated
bony
cadaverous
consumptive
famished
gaunt
haggard
lank
lean
like a bag of bones
meager
peaked
pinched
scrawny
skeletal
skeletonlike
skin-and-bones
skinny
starved
thin as rail
underfed
wasted
wizened
few
adjective
hardly any
exiguous
few and far between
imperceptible
inconsequential
inconsiderable
infrequent
insufficient
lean
less
meager
middling
minor
minority
minute
negligible
not many
not too many
occasional
paltry
petty
piddling
rare
scant
scanty
scarce
scarcely any
scattered
scattering
seldom
semioccasional
short
skimpy
slender
slight
slim
some
sparse
sporadic
stingy
straggling
thin
trifling
uncommon
unfrequent
widely spaced
fewer
adjective
hardly any
exiguous
few and far between
imperceptible
inconsequential
inconsiderable
infrequent
insufficient
lean
less
meager
middling
minor
minority
minute
negligible
not many
not too many
occasional
paltry
petty
piddling
rare
scant
scanty
scarce
scarcely any
scattered
scattering
seldom
semioccasional
short
skimpy
slender
slight
slim
some
sparse
sporadic
stingy
straggling
thin
trifling
uncommon
unfrequent
widely spaced
fewest
adjective
hardly any
exiguous
few and far between
imperceptible
inconsequential
inconsiderable
infrequent
insufficient
lean
less
meager
middling
minor
minority
minute
negligible
not many
not too many
occasional
paltry
petty
piddling
rare
scant
scanty
scarce
scarcely any
scattered
scattering
seldom
semioccasional
short
skimpy
slender
slight
slim
some
sparse
sporadic
stingy
straggling
thin
trifling
uncommon
unfrequent
widely spaced
flex
verb
bend
angle
contract
crook
curve
lean
mold
ply
spring
stretch
tighten
tilt
yield
gaunt
adjective
skinny
angular
anorexic
attenuated
bare
bleak
bony
cadaverous
desolate
dismal
dreary
emaciated
forbidding
forlorn
grim
haggard
harsh
lank
lean
like a bag of bones
meager
peaked
peaky
pinched
rawboned
scraggy
scrawny
skeletal
skeleton
skin and bones
spare
thin
wasted
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