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scrawny

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1. scrawny - Adjective

2. scrawny - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser. Diana Gabaldon

Will: I say we sell her to the Gypsies on Hampstead Heath. I hear they puchase spare women as well as hoses. Charlotte: Will, stop it. That's ridivulous. Will:You're right. They'd never buy her. Too scrawny. Cassandra Clare

"Now, you have to tighten your belts, because we, your leaders, mis-spent your hard-earned money." Know what would make tightening my belt a little easier? If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck. Bill Hicks

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot. Rick Riordan

Oh my god, I am so awesome!" Leo bellowed. "So awesome!" Echo yelled back. "He is funny," a nymph ventured. "And cute, in a scrawny way," another said. "Scrawny?" Leo asked. "Baby I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot. Rick Riordan

At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind. Wallace Stevens

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