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leggy

adjective as in gangly

adjective as in rangy

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Seeing him paw the ground and whinny only served to emphasize how leggy and coltish he had become.

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Isak gradually worked his way into the game, but started to look leggy as the first half came to a close.

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The party scenes with leggy dancers, meant to be decadent, are inoffensive.

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He says this seriously, even though he’s striding around Streisand’s 3-acre property like a leggy teenager.

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With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic pot.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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