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skinny
adjective as in very thin
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emaciated, lank, like a rail, malnourished, rawboned, scraggy, skeletal, skin-and-bone, twiggy, undernourished, underweight
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The guy’s much too skinny to fill out the navy-blue suit he’s wearing.
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“Do you see that hourglass marking that’s skinny in the middle and wider on its sides?”
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“He’s got little legs and skinny arms but has no fear at all.”
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The boy was fifteen, skinny, almost malnourished, so that the hip bones and coccyx stood out sharply.
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He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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