scrawny
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This isn’t a job for the scrawny or the squeamish, or for those who crave social recognition or respect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Lotkoy Ebey has just five scrawny goats to her name where she once had 50.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
He was sitting on a curb beneath a scrawny tree, trying to get some shade, and coughing.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
Even a scrawny "manfluencer" like Jordan Peterson was claiming to eat a beef-only diet, which would destroy your bowels and is terrible for your heart.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
“He’s small, kinda scrawny, with brown skin and dark hair,” Kaori says.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
He’s also the younger of three brothers who grew up as scrawnier than many fellow humans, then learned to fend with that and then some.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
Though scrawnier than Western varieties, the chickens have a darker-hued meat that the Taiwanese swear is superior in taste and nutrition.
From Slate ● May 8, 2017
A more natural choice would be tween-dreamy, an actor with a scrawnier frame beneath that torso-hugging tunic.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2014
Durant has been playing with the Goodman League since he was an even scrawnier 16-year-old, hoping to earn a reputation.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2011
He grew thinner, his cheeks more hollow, his neck scrawnier.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
Grant Hill: You know, Michael, there once was this kid, the scrawniest, geekiest kid you ever saw.
From Slate ● May 5, 2019
Instead, Stern offered the “Trump Tree,” which the tycoon, in “The Art of the Deal” dismissed as one of “the ugliest, scrawniest little trees you’re ever likely to see.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2015
Kharey Wise, by far the scrawniest of the group, happened to be the only one old enough to spend all his time in adult jail and prison.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2012
It offers to the observer hurricanes and breathless heat, some of the world's healthiest fish and scrawniest cattle, the unbelievably hard living of the Everglades and the unbelievably soft living of Palm Beach.
From Time Magazine Archive
Always they were the scrawniest or the ugliest or the dirtiest or the stupidest boys, picked on by everyone else, with no one left uglier or stupider than they but her.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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