Thesaurus / skin and bones
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synonyms for skin and bones
- anorexic
- bony
- gaunt
- scrawny
- skeletal
- skinny
- atrophied
- attenuate
- attenuated
- famished
- lean
- peaked
- pinched
- starved
- wasted
- cadaverous
- consumptive
- haggard
- lank
- like a bag of bones
- meager
- skeletonlike
- thin as a rail
- underfed
- wizened
- angular
- anorexic
- bleak
- emaciated
- forlorn
- grim
- thin
- attenuated
- bare
- bony
- cadaverous
- desolate
- dismal
- dreary
- forbidding
- haggard
- harsh
- lank
- lean
- like a bag of bones
- meager
- peaked
- peaky
- pinched
- rawboned
- scraggy
- scrawny
- skeletal
- skeleton
- spare
- wasted
- slim
- tenuous
- angular
- bare
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- broomstick
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- hungry
- lacking
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- lithe
- little
- narrow
- rattleboned
- rawboned
- scraggy
- scrawny
- skinny
- slender
- spare
- starved
- stinted
- stunted
- underfed
- wanting
- willowy
- withered
- bony
- emaciated
- anorexic
- atrophied
- attenuated
- cadaverous
- drawn
- famished
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- lean
- scrawny
- shriveled
- shrunken
- skinny
- starved
- thin
- underfed
- undernourished
- withered
- bony
- lanky
- skinny
- angular
- gaunt
- lank
- lean
- rawboned
- scraggy
- skeletal
- spare
- undernourished
- underweight
- malnourished
- starved
- undernourished
- angular
- anorectic
- bony
- gangly
- puny
- scrawny
- shadow
- skeleton
- skinny
- stringbean
- undersized
- atrophied
- attenuated
- famished
- lean
- shriveled
- starved
- thin
- undernourished
- withered
- anorexic
- bony
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- scrawny
- skeletal
- skinny
- underfed
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How to use skin and bones in a sentence
Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSShe also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTNo law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTA lurid spot on each cheek showed burning red through the bronze of his skin.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONI saw this girl, eight or nine years old, all benumbed and nothing but skin and bone.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSMovement to know that she was attired in appropriate costume—short frock, biped continuations and a mannish oil-skin hat.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYMr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSAnd it is quite true that the particular employer can no more break away from these limits than he can jump out of his own skin.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKThey were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGI "shinned," and reached the ledge with a good deal of skin peeled from various parts of my person.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRWORDS RELATED TO SKIN AND BONES
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