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scrawniness

/skraw-nee/US // ˈskrɔ ni //UK // (ˈskrɔːnɪ) //

潦草性,潦倒,潦草,潦草程度

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    scrawn·i·er, scrawn·i·est.

    • : excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.

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Examples

  • The cat was so small and scrawny that Mike’s mother decided he needed a big name.

  • I asked a scrawny 15-year-old boy who works at a candy packaging facility about how he sees his future.

  • Toward the end of the cycle, the birds are scrawnier, their fat stores depleted over the months of cold, so they tend to start huddling at warmer temperatures.

  • If scrawny little Tutankhamun can do it, a badass like Khufu could probably cause them to spontaneously combust.

  • He was still achieving in school and sports, though less brilliantly than before, and was somewhat small and scrawny.

  • He grew up a scrawny kid with nagging allergy problems in a suburb of Stockholm.

  • A few are recovering from eating disorders; their cheeks are hollow and their scrawny arms droop like slack rubber bands.

  • She bore Marneffe a child, a stunted, scrawny urchin named Stanislas.

  • Bluish dawnlight seemed to tint their scrawny bare arms and legs a deeper, ghastly blue.

  • Their sales of scrawny cattle jist about paid the taxes en bought their salt en terbacker.

  • A stub of a root and two scrawny plum branches would at any time arouse my imagination like the circus posters' appeal to a boy.

  • The squatter lifted it up with infinite tenderness, binding the rags more closely about the scrawny body.