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View definitions for long-legged

long-legged

adjective as in gangly

adjective as in rangy

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The baying of the hounds grew louder, and the wolves ran faster still, panting hard to keep up with the swift and long-legged bird.

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For years, it was WASPy, long-legged girls, with a tennis racket over one shoulder and a touch-me-not attitude.

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The performance is elaborate and delightful and impeccably choreographed, with Hiddleston doing long-legged strides as though he’s the second coming of Christopher Walken.

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Its Jan. 27 cover was an elegant and elegiac illustration of seven long-legged, shaggy-capped palms against a menacing ombre orange backdrop of approaching fire.

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The cat’s journey, which starts with its reflection in a shimmering pond, is the emotional center, but the large, long-legged bird’s story is especially touching, with Miyazaki-like echoes.

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