Underfleshed
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Lacking flesh or substance; skinny or scanty.
"His lines are jazzy and improvisational, as though he is trying to figure himself out on the page, and the poems themselves are skinny and underfleshed; one in this new collection is called Poem on Toilet Paper, but they all look as though they were written that way."
Example
More examples"His lines are jazzy and improvisational, as though he is trying to figure himself out on the page, and the poems themselves are skinny and underfleshed; one in this new collection is called Poem on Toilet Paper, but they all look as though they were written that way."
Etymology
From under- + fleshed.
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