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The flavor was exceedingly fine, but it had not been allowed to come to maturity, hence it was thin and shriveled.
Presently a little old woman approaches, shriveled and smiling, in her faded furbelows now in rags.
THE REAL LATIN QUARTERF. BERKELEY SMITH
The Church, the nobles, and the gentry then turned one grand, all-disapproving frown upon them and shriveled them into sheep!
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, COMPLETEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)
The little being lay at the feet of its mother, almost shapeless, and already blackened and shriveled by the fiery sun.
Could I stay the touch of that shriveled hand, I would keep the bald-head from No-man's-land.
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUS
Youre going to save Mr. Scurlock and the boy, and keep this shriveled monkey of a witch from raising the town against us?
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND
Ye put 'em all in water alike, an' most on 'em gits fat an' smooth, but this one stays small an' shriveled up.
THE GENTLE ART OF COOKING WIVESELIZABETH STRONG WORTHINGTON
There was a clot of seaweed at his wrist, and the soles of his feet and one up-turned palm were grayish and shriveled.
THE JEWELS OF APTORSAMUEL R. DELANY
They came, stopping to pick up swords from the shriveled darknesses on the ground about the clearing.
THE JEWELS OF APTORSAMUEL R. DELANY
A few, a very few shriveled old men were known to him as cotemporaries.
WORDS RELATED TO SHRIVELED
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- 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
- twiggy
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
- Lilliputian
- babyish
- bantam
- brief
- cramped
- diminutive
- dinky
- elfin
- embryonic
- fleeting
- hardly any
- hasty
- immature
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- infant
- infinitesimal
- insufficient
- junior
- light
- limited
- meager
- microscopic
- mini
- miniature
- minute
- not big
- not large
- peanut
- petite
- scant
- short
- short-lived
- shrimpy
- shriveled
- skimpy
- slight
- snub
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- toy
- truncated
- undersized
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
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