as in gaunt
being tall, thin and usually loose-jointed
spindly, underfed dogs roamed the poverty-stricken village
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Recent Examples of spindly
Try a bottle of La Tomato ($19.95, though quite a bit more with shipping), from the Japanese distillery Godo Shusei Co, an ice-clear concoction made with fresh tomato juice; its vegetal sweetness will sing when poured into spindly, garden-green cordial glasses from Ferm Living ($69 for four).
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
The brilliant multidisciplinary artist and her husband, Bill Miller, a former vice president at Morgan Stanley, were holding court at a spindly cocktail table.
—Helen Holmes, ARTnews.com, 19 Nov. 2024
Both have spindly legs, two working rotary knobs on the front for volume and channels and a power button on top.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
Anyone visiting the park will want to see the spindly hoodoos, striated in red, gold, and white.
—Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024
The brilliant multidisciplinary artist and her husband, Bill Miller, a former vice president at Morgan Stanley, were holding court at a spindly cocktail table.
—Helen Holmes, ARTnews.com, 19 Nov. 2024
Both have spindly legs, two working rotary knobs on the front for volume and channels and a power button on top.
—Simon Hill, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
Anyone visiting the park will want to see the spindly hoodoos, striated in red, gold, and white.
—Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spindly
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The face that looked back at her in the rearview mirror was gaunt, her skin pale around glassy hazel eyes.Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
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Gone is the gaunt, skeletal vampire of the 1922 film, replaced by a larger, more intimidating, master of the undead with a mustache and deep voice.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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DirecTV was involved in a nearly two-week dispute with Walt Disney Company last September over a new carriage agreement where DirecTV sought the ability to offer skinnier bundles of channels.Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
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Zones 3-9. J. communis ‘Pencil Point’– Like other junipers, this skinny shrub tolerates poor, dry soils and needs little attention once established.Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Jan. 2025
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In the video, a lanky kid is smoothly fielding balls on a dirt infield, then throwing hard strikes from the mound, and then lacing line drives from the left-handed batter’s box.Dan Freedman, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
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Their common name is derived from their prehensile tails, some as long as three feet, which the animals use along with their disproportionately lanky limbs to grasp branches and other objects.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2025
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The faux leather exterior is sleek and practical for this time of year, while the inside has a thin fleece lining to keep you warm.Nicol Natale, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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From pencil thin brows to cool-toned smokey eyes, all the cool girls are channeling that iconic vintage supermodel aesthetic.Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 13 Jan. 2025
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Lift your hips off the ground and place a block underneath your sacrum, the widest, boniest part of your pelvis.Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
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Differences in Adult Bones That being said, some adults are bonier than others.Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
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The stars here, however, are the gangly, majestic pink flamingos feeding in estuary grasses.Alex Crevar, New York Times, 11 July 2024
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The reasons are partly anthropomorphic — these large, gangly birds are fiercely protective of their young, and the fathers stay behind to rear the chicks after the mothers fly on to central Mexico or some other wintering grounds.Krista Stevens, Longreads, 8 July 2024
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In January, 2016, David Cameron, the former Conservative Prime Minister, announced that the new structure would be built in Victoria Tower Gardens, a slender triangular park, overhung with forty-four plane trees, that follows the banks of the River Thames.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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The slender giant moray (Strophidon sathete) and a few other species can also tolerate and occasionally enter lower-salinity environments such as river mouths.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Spindly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spindly. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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