spindly
Use Spindly in a sentence
li adjective, spin·dli·er, spin·dli·est.
long or tall, thin, and usually frail: The colt wobbled on its spindly legs.
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| —adj , -dlier, -dliest | |
| tall, slender, and frail; attenuated | |
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Spindly
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
But if those garden-centre specimens are a little too spindly for your taste, there's always the fake fir option.
Their hands evolved long spindly fingers that were joined by membranes.
But if those garden-center specimens are a little too spindly for your taste, there's always the fake fir option.
White matter contains the protein myelin, which coats neurons' spindly axons as they reach toward other areas of the brain.
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