Thesaurus / puny
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He makes his fellow NBA players, some of the biggest and strongest men in the world, look puny.
ZION WILLIAMSON IS USED TO REJECTIONYARON WEITZMANAPRIL 16, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTWithout protection, puny electronic components in a robot don’t have a chance.
THIS SOFT ROBOT STINGRAY JUST EXPLORED THE DEEPEST POINT IN THE OCEANSHELLY FANMARCH 9, 2021SINGULARITY HUB It’s not because these puny males risk their lives for love.
THE UNGENTLE JOY OF SPIDER SEXARS CONTRIBUTORSNOVEMBER 29, 2020ARS TECHNICAThis is why the visual-language data sets that exist are so puny.
THIS COULD LEAD TO THE NEXT BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN COMMON SENSE AIKAREN HAONOVEMBER 6, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWPrior to that data protection rules existed in the region but could be easily ignored, given puny penalties.
UK WATCHDOG REDUCES MARRIOTT DATA BREACH FINE TO $23.8M, DOWN FROM $123MNATASHA LOMASOCTOBER 30, 2020TECHCRUNCHTake out that number, and Tesla’s total net income from autos, batteries, and services drops from a puny $104 million to a minus $300 million, or almost 5% of all-in sales.
TESLA’S BIGGEST PROFIT CENTER IS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO RUNNING OUT OF POWERSHAWN TULLYSEPTEMBER 30, 2020FORTUNEMrs. Jordan, a British matron of solid proportions, passed down the path on the arm of a comparatively puny cavalier.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDJoey was puny and hairless as ever, but in Rose's face as she looked at him there was a flush of maternal tenderness and gravity.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRIt can set him up with a semblance of bodily strength, when otherwise he would be puny and fragile.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANNo longer did his heavy battle axe seem to weigh on his puny arm.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEWORDS RELATED TO PUNY
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fragile
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- lightweight
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- pole
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- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- wizened
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- wizened
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- threadlike
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- wizened
- atomic
- beside the point
- commonplace
- diminutive
- evanescent
- everyday
- flimsy
- frivolous
- immaterial
- inappreciable
- incidental
- inconsequential
- inconsiderable
- insignificant
- irrelevant
- little
- meager
- mean
- meaningless
- microscopic
- minor
- minute
- momentary
- negligible
- nonessential
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- petty
- piddling
- puny
- scanty
- skin-deep
- slight
- small
- superficial
- trifling
- trite
- unimportant
- valueless
- vanishing
- worthless
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
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