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Meanings of scrawny in English
Synonyms
Examples for "skinny"
Examples for "skinny"
1
There's 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.' That's one of them.
2
Although skinny and in need of food, there were no obvious wounds.
3
I hope the skinny branch is strong enough to hold my weight.
4
Spain are in their new kit: cravats, neckerchiefs and red skinny jeans.
5
Dozens of long, skinny, single-story warehouses run parallel down toward the water.
1
I'd never thought about their heart health because both are considered underweight.
2
Pimco is underweight emerging markets after cutting its exposure recently, Baker said.
3
In addition, underweight patients had a decreased risk of developing postoperative infection.
4
Central banks have long been underweight the yen in their reserve portfolios.
5
Similar magnitude of RR of underweight was observed among the three groups.
1
Yet for some reason it was sold as a weedy teen romance.
2
There is then a struggle between the weedy shrubs and the grass.
3
A pleasant odor of sealing-wax dominated the weedy smell of the canal.
4
I couldn't wait to be self-reliant on every weedy inch of it.
5
Peter splashed across a muddy creek, then skirted around several weedy bogs.
1
A good test is to tap the boney lump with a knuckle.
2
There are actually boney quill knobs that are present on its forearm.
3
The boy flicked the big, boney horse with his whip and looked thoughtful.
4
You're dragging that boney-ass body of yours up these stairs.
5
The patient had normal stature; without rachitic or boney deformities or a history of fractures.
1
A short, scraggy white beard covered the lower part of the face.
2
Over the uneven scraggy promontory, blinded by the fierce sunlight, Annadoah staggered.
3
You're lucky you didn't get your scraggy ass blown to kingdom come.
4
Presently they saw a house smoking under a scraggy clump of eucalyptus.
5
His scraggy throat was adorned with a black neckerchief like a boot-lace.
Usage of scrawny in English
1
Mary took Billy's scrawny shoulders in her hand, saying, Come on, sweetie.
2
My arms seemed particularly scrawny hanging out from beneath the short sleeves.
3
Plenty of these scrawny infants may be seen in the lying-in hospitals.
4
The picture will capture the moment forever, he shrugged his scrawny shoulders.
5
The long scrawny throat worked convulsively, the hands gripped each other savagely.
6
Is that too long a name for a scrawny thing like you?
7
He did not look surprised, though his scrawny shoulders drooped even further.
8
I wonder if it nests in one of the scrawny ridgeline junipers.
9
Kissing in the park where that scrawny policeman came and scolded us.
10
Her cheeks sagged and her chin dropped almost to her scrawny chest.
11
The boyfriend would work out nicely because he was kind of scrawny.
12
Next to the armor, a scrawny, beak-nosed corporal stood at attention, saluting.
13
In ounce-for-ounce comparison, mammals and reptiles are scrawny weaklings next to birds.
14
Tiny, childlike chins completed the head, running down to a scrawny neck.
15
So I followed the rumour trail, one scrawny kobold to the next.
16
I begin to look as Cousin Hetty does, with that scrawny neck.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common