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Meanings of skinniness in anglès

The bodily property of lacking flesh.

Sinònims
Examples for "scrawniness"
Examples for "scrawniness"
1
And the scrawniness of stem and blade suggested dehydration and poor soil.
Storm Over Warlock
2
He had passed through slimness and skinniness, had traveled through scrawniness.
The stand
3
His limbs were bony stalks that jutted out of his scrawniness in graceless angularity.
Second Foundation
4
He was now poised on some metaphoric (or metabolic) fence between scrawniness and emaciation.
The stand
5
Unlike Billy, though, who was thin to the point of scrawniness, Black Hawk was a solid mass of muscle.
The Necromancer
Usage of skinniness in anglès
1
He reminded me of Eric, thanks to his skinniness and dyed hair.
Mysterious Skin
2
So the argument that links status with skinniness is not persuasive.
The Red Queen
3
He had passed through slimness and skinniness, had traveled through scrawniness.
The stand
4
As for his skinniness, he had been born with a sense of taste.
Provenance
5
Yet the current culture of skinniness legitimises the anorexic's beliefs.
The Guardian
6
She came in her ordinary skinniness, her thin red hair.
Flesh and blood
7
I thought it had to be about the skinniness.
Ebony
8
When did the tide turn toward such skinniness, anyway?
The lost recipe for happiness
9
Then I thought of my skinniness and ugliness in comparison with her slight but perfect beauty.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
10
His skinniness was also a matter of pride.
Lonesome Land
11
She hugged my arm to her skinniness.
Vigorish
12
This then becomes a vicious circle, with such images of skinniness being seen as the image of a Successful Woman.
The Guardian
13
She has none of the self-doubt we are so used to hearing from women in these times of aspirational skinniness.
Babyville
14
He was tall, nearly as tall as Jamie, but much narrower through the shoulder, thin, in fact, nearly to the point of skinniness.
Outlander
15
Skinniness is a very poor clue to wealth, and in any case men are not much interested in women's status or wealth.
The Red Queen
16
He reminded me of Eric, thanks to his skinniness and dyed hair.
Mysterious Skin
About this term
Skinniness through the time