rachitic
Example Sentences
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A sequence of rachitic little drawings by Tracey Emin – whose monoprints are so ubiquitous as to have become museum wallpaper – cannot compete with those of her heroine, Louise Bourgeois.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2012
Short in stature, rachitic in boyhood, Adler was fascinated from youth on by the power of the human will as an antidote to physical defects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before she was three years old, a series of infantile diseases had left Gwen so rachitic and knock-kneed that she could barely walk.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a weedy, unhealthy-looking man, weakly of frame, rachitic, undersized, with spindle-shanks, and a countenance that was almost grotesque, with its protruding jaw, gaping mouth, great, doglike eyes, and yellow tuft of beard.
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
