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Meanings of spindly in English

Long and lean.

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Usage of spindly in English
1
Indeed, following Karlin's gaze, Magiere saw the spindly man on the shore.
Thief of lives
2
It was narrower, far more overgrown, and crowded with leaning, spindly trees.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
3
Stone in impossible spindly shapes, wafting, insinuate billows, coil and smog recoil.
Iron Council
4
She walked pensively among the spindly trees, laden with aromatic, sweet fruit.
Heaven and the heather
5
A spindly table beside it supported a precariously leaning stack of books.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
6
The creature towered above him, tattered and spindly, but aching with power.
Complete Books of Blood
7
Struggling with her wedding-skirt, she poised herself inside a spindly cast-glass chair.
Edge of Infinity
8
Turning around, I saw that it came from a spindly-limbed teenage girl.
The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
9
She'd traded them for lanky, transplanted palm trees and spindly desert shrubs.
Goodbye dolly
10
Forked veins lined her spindly arms and liver spots dotted her wrists.
The charlemagne pursuit
11
It looks like a matchstick bridge, thin and spindly above the trees.
Full Circle
12
He was a spindly red-haired man who served as Fount Royal's shoemaker.
Speaks the Nightbird
13
The high-ceilinged room is decorated with spindly wooden furniture, expensive but old.
Night of knives
14
The creeper was rocked backwards on its spindly legs and then toppled.
Ilse Witch
15
Beside her, a spindly Annie was standing next to a brand-new bike.
On mystic lake
16
She brushed her fingers behind his ears and along his spindly neck.
Take a Chance on Me
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
Less common