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scrawny
adjective as in unhealthily thin
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He was too shy, too scrawny, too awkward.
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Friends and family were skeptical of the scrawny teen.
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“He came here as a scrawny kicker at 100 pounds,” Walsh said.
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West Sacramento has long been the region’s scrawny stepchild of a municipality.
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More than two years later, video showed the scrawny teen calling out for his mother as five officers piled onto him.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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