Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
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Short-legged
Synonyms for "short-legged"
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1 entriesTranslations
12 translations across 11 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μικροσκελής adj (having short legs)
Catalan
1 entries- camacurt adj (having short legs)
Finnish
2 entries- lyhytjalkainen adj (having short legs)
- persjalkainen adj (having short legs)
French
1 entries- court sur pattes adj (having short legs)
German
1 entries- kurzbeinig adj (having short legs)
Greek
1 entries- μικροσκελής adj (having short legs)
Irish
1 entries- gearrchosach adj (having short legs)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- باجاقسز adj (having short legs)
Polish
1 entries- krótkonogi adj (having short legs)
Russian
1 entries- коротконо́гий adj (having short legs)
Spanish
1 entries- paticorto adj (having short legs)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
However, small, deep-bodied, shortlegged cattle have been known in Ireland since Celtic times.
Source: wiktionary
The two dogs were beagles, shortlegged and frantic, leaping in and out of the chest-high fall of snow, or plowing their noses through it and furrowing snow up and past their ears, their tails spinning, then looking up with white brows and whiskers, gnomic and hoary-faced as little old men.
Source: wiktionary
A droll man with a quiet voice and a talent for mimicking almost anyone with tart accuracy, he had the mate down to a fault already, that officer's shortlegged strut, his mad glare and, at a much—reduced volume to avoid detection, his bullhorn bellow.
Source: wiktionary
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