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Scrawny
Scrawny meaning
Thin, malnourished, and weak.
Example sentences (16)
I had taken two or three pictures before I was interrupted by a shirtless youth no older than 20. With support from four other scrawny young males and a pretty but unkempt female teenager, he insisted I put away my camera.
Instead of the specially reared Norfolk turkey his relations were tucking into at Sandringham the prince had a scrawny chicken, freshly slaughtered by Gurkha soldiers with their fearsome daggers.
Memory Museum are scrawny, white kids; I think I saw them once.
Down below, on the riverbank, black-eyed children were playing on the strand among garbage battled over by scrawny dogs and goats.
He was a scrawny pit bull mix with a big head that looked goofy on his petite frame.
In the book, Richards is a scrawny and desperate father who agrees to enter contest as the last resort to get medicine for his sick daughter.
While the Saluki’s top speed of 43 miles per hour is a bit quicker than the big cat’s 37, the scrawny dog makes a few elusive moves, yet eventually runs out of gas.
A scrawny-looking donkey noses among the rocks, seeking out the last scraps of nutrition.
But the crucial instrumentalist was Alex Castillo, a scrawny kid in a black jacket, white T-shirt and fuzzball haircut whose bass lines were both rhythmically muscular and melodically fearless.
He goes into the freezer and discovers that there’s one last scrawny turkey left.
He has been told that families have a better chance at the border, so he is considering taking his scrawny nine-year-old son, Wilson, with him.
It’s been five years, and I’ve tried to correct their scrawny growth by adding plenty of mulch and fertilizing regularly, but the growth continues to be weak.
No wonder the boys looked scrawny, sick and miserable.
Suggesting, or implying that food products with the Non-GMO Project Verified label are safer and more nutritious is simply misleading and rests on scrawny scientific evidence.
A scrawny, little, black-haired, bespectacled boy became more and more of a wizard to me..
Rowling imagined him as a "scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard", and says she transferred part of her pain about losing her mother to him.