Thesaurus / wan
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Dig below the surface, though, and the broth, supposedly made with beef broth and cognac, has been wan eating both times I’ve tried it.
GEORGETOWN GAINS A LITTLE GEM IN LUTÈCETOM SIETSEMAFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA vast assemblage of countless thousands of women, and boys, and wan and starving men, gathered in the streets of Paris.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTHumanity shut its eyes in view of the hideous apparition of wan and haggard beggary and crime.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTThe colored woman came running, and with her Grace, who looked at the wan features of the soldier with piteous eyes.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNMargaret lay, wan and exhausted, on the sofa—the doctor looked very melancholy and rather stern, and the others were silent.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEJulie acknowledged this flattery by a wan little smile, and following Hester out of the 24 room, went in to see her father.
THOSE DALE GIRLSFRANK WESTON CARRUTHShe lay as still as if she were dead, her eyes shut, her wan face numbed into a fixed anguish of expression.
RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLWhen he looked up again the elder nurse had the baby in her arms; and there was a wan smile on Corydon's face.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIRShe looks pretty white, though, and what the storybooks call 'wan,' I reckon.
THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCHELEANOR H. (ELEANOR HODGMAN) PORTERIt was in contrast to these officials that he painted the ideal times of Kings Wan and Woo.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDWORDS RELATED TO WAN
- 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
- anemic
- ashen
- ashy
- blanched
- bleached
- bloodless
- cadaverous
- colorless
- deathlike
- dim
- doughy
- dull
- faded
- faint
- feeble
- ghastly
- gray
- haggard
- inadequate
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- insubstantial
- livid
- lurid
- pallid
- pasty
- poor
- sallow
- sick
- sickly
- spectral
- thin
- unsubstantial
- wan
- washed-out
- waxen
- waxlike
- weak
- white
- whitish
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