The scrawniness of sickly trees. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a long, scrawny neck. From Dictionary.com.
And the scrawniness of stem and blade suggested dehydration and poor soil. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
At some point in the last decade, she became a vegan and the resulting scrawniness gave life to the rumors of surgical reduction. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » We Have Got To Get John Scalzi A Movie Production Gig] Reference
The mark of the ligature was so vivid on the white scrawniness of the neck that it looked artificial, a simulation of death, not death itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighthouse]
The torturer half dragged, half marched Tregennis across the room, held him against the wall, and, claws out on the free hand, ripped the clothes from his scrawniness. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
I suppose this might explain the scrawniness of our creative product, and why all new novels seem to be the same novel and all new movies remakes or spin-offs or sequels and all new plays revivals. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
(I do understand that sometimes scrawny chicks can't help their scrawniness though). sidebar boxes to add below. From Wordnik.com. [Alibi Weblog] Reference
But this last offer had been accompanied by a sneer, and had tokened the old rascal's scorn of the girl's scrawniness. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry of the Islands] Reference
Their physical aspects ranged from the bearded and faintly odorous burliness of Mr. Petrowitz to the rat-faced and yellow-toothed scrawniness of Mr. Pargo; but all of them had the same dominant characteristic in common. From Wordnik.com. [The Saint in Action]
The stiffness and scrawniness of youth appears more obviously in his purely American stories than in those narrated against a European background, as were all the three he salvaged from these days of experimentA Passionate Pilgrim (1871), The Madonna of the Future (1873), Madame de Mauves (1874). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8. Henry James] Reference
But this last offer had been accompanied by a sneer, and had tokened the old rascal’s scorn of the girl’s scrawniness. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER IV] Reference
The point is, having a six-pack stomach won’t make you happy, even though you might think your flab or your scrawniness is making you unhappy. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret® to Teen Power] Reference
Below that looms scrawniness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
And she who scarcely lives for scrawniness. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
I often found, or seemed to find, if I may dare to confess it, in the persons of such of my dear countrywomen as I now occasionally met, a certain meagreness, (Heaven forbid that I should call it scrawniness!) a deficiency of physical development, a scantiness, so to speak, in the pattern of their material make, a paleness of complexion, a thinness of voice, -- all which characteristics, nevertheless, only made me resolve so much the more sturdily to uphold these fair creatures as angels, because I was sometimes driven to a half-acknowledgment, that the English ladies, looked at from a lower point of view, were perhaps a little finer animals than they. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
I often found, or seemed to find, if I may dare to confess it, in the persons of such of my dear countrywomen as I now occasionally met, a certain meagreness, (Heaven forbid that I should call it scrawniness!) a deficiency of physical development, a scantiness, so to speak, in the pattern of their material make, a paleness of complexion, a thinness of voice, -- all of which characteristics, nevertheless, only made me resolve so much the more sturdily to uphold these fair creatures as angels, because I was sometimes driven to a half-acknowledgment, that the English ladies, looked at from a lower point of view, were perhaps a little finer animals than they. From Wordnik.com. [Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches] Reference
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