Scrawny

/ˈskɹɔni/

Synonyms for "scrawny" (98 found)

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Related word relations

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amountappearanceevidence quality

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bare fundsemaciatedflimsygauntinsubstantialmeager budgetskeletalskimpy resources

Collocations

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scrawny appearancescrawny armsscrawny buildscrawny framescrawny legsscrawny student

Inflections

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Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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Tom is a scrawny kid.

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Tom isn't scrawny.

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For the past few years, teenagers who imitate overweight American rappers have been walking like inverted pendulums, swinging from left to right, which is the only way forward if you weigh over two hundred and sixty pounds, but completely ineffective if you are a scrawny teenager weighing half of that, since most of the energy is wasted on side steps, not to mention the sheer absurdity of that swinging gait.

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Tom is very scrawny and wouldn't be able to fight his way out of a wet paper bag.

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