Adjective, : a very tall and lanky man. From Dictionary.com.
But she lacked the ordinary low-gravity lankiness. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
He's got the aloofness, brooding and lankiness down-pat. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Developing Cowboy Bebop Live-Action Feature Film! « FirstShowing.net] Reference
His thick, burly, body contrasted with Len's tall lankiness. From Wordnik.com. [Chickenhawk]
POSITIVES: Ariza has the lankiness clubs crave at small forward. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
Teammates tease you about: "Because of my lankiness, they call me Big Bird.". From Wordnik.com. [All-USA girls' basketball team: Ogwumike is player of the year] Reference
The lankiness of limb, and the lankness of feature and hair, sufficiently pleasing in poor. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Is she folding her lankiness into the furniture again, clogging the bathtub drain with her long black hair?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Lara was too young, but Mariel, just sliding into the awkward lankiness between childhood and adulthood, was not. From Wordnik.com. [And Other Tales Of Valdemar]
Billy Joe's older twin brothers were tall and rawboned, although their lankiness wasn't quite as pronounced as his. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness]
He was also stupefied by the man's lankiness and height, and disturbingly reminded of a German by the blue and very nordic eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
On her, however, the overall impression was one of a competitive swimmer, while Coyote had always verged on an awkward lankiness. From Wordnik.com. [Terror At Dawn]
What he said was true: very soon he would be a big boy, “little Cuffy” no more: the day of long legs and lankiness was at hand. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Childhood] Reference
Much of the time he kept his head down and stared at the floor, as if this would somehow lessen his lankiness or diminish his presence. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx's Folly]
"The Illusionist" aptly captures Hulot's lankiness, long strides, sometimes hunched torso -- everything right down to the highly hiked pants here, a striking magenta and very visible socks. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Riffs Interview: 'ILLUSIONIST' filmmaker Sylvain Chomet delves into art, inspiration & Oscars] Reference
He looked particularly dapper in his traditional blue and white yachting outfit; with his impressive height, lankiness and powerfully rugged face he appeared not unlike Gary Cooper off the range. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
That sketch admirably pourtrays the lankiness and flabbiness of. From Wordnik.com. [In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences] Reference
But in spite of his lankiness, his primary asset is his persistence. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I love his egg-shaped head, lankiness, and Jaeger Reverso Squadra Chronograph GMT watch. From Wordnik.com. [All About My Movies.] Reference
He would eventually like to stack on another 10 pounds to help offset some of his lankiness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And somehow I think that my skeletal frame, my lankiness, helps in that, it just looks funny. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Romita's Venom is less about muscles and size and more about lankiness and being outright creepy. From Wordnik.com. [4thletter!] Reference
Privileged white men, who feel completely comfortable extending their lankiness all over the place. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Something about the lankiness of everybody, which could be caused by the fact that a "large" shirt is the size of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory] Reference
Already she was tall for her age, with something of that lankiness which marks the early development of a really fine figure. From Wordnik.com. [The Man] Reference
Grabovski hit him with a pass at the top of the crease and the Kazakh used all of that lankiness to reach around a sprawling Raycroft with a calm backhander. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
I felt guilty; I felt I'd failed to spot the telltale signs - the thirst I'd attributed to him being a growing teenage boy; the thinness I put down to lankiness born of a growth spurt. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
It was from his lankiness and length of limb that he was called “. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland]
It could be lankiness in one case, it could be somebody’s eyes in another. From Wordnik.com. [How Do I Love Thee?] Reference
Era outfit, a bit of lankiness, a generic, spiky videogame hero hairdo and the nickname. From Wordnik.com. [Destructoid] Reference
The boy inherited his father’s lankiness and his mother’s slightly nasal way of speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Family Once Inhabited Kentucky | Impact Lab] Reference
And the lankiness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2009] Reference
The lankiness of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829] Reference
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