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spindly
[ spind-lee ]
adjective
- long or tall, thin, and usually frail:
The colt wobbled on its spindly legs.
spindly
/ ˈspɪndlɪ /
adjective
- tall, slender, and frail; attenuated
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It too had been built back up, and the six or eight tall spindly French summer homes have been rebuilt.
Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack.
Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord.
Today, a small corner of the building is packed with spindly, aspiring clowns filling out forms on folding chairs.
My eyes were woozy as I woke up, and I saw these spindly, veiny legs in slippers and a nightgown.
Four spindly legs led up to a globular body encased in a harness-like contraption.
Pink touched the herons wings, its beak, its head, its glittering beady eyes and spindly leg.
Did you notice what prodigiously long fingers he had, and what spindly legs?
The spindly tops of the trees pointed heavenward with the rigidity of church spires.
She was such a mite of a child, hardly more than eight or nine, if judged from the size of the spindly, undeveloped figure.
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