Underfleshed

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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