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[ adjective ] tall and thin and having long slender limbs
Examples "a gangling teenager" "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man" Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)She was forty-nine at this time , a lanky woman of breeding with an austere , narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long_ago for a stubborn sort of prayer . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] ungracefully tall and thin
Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)Nikolai_Cherkasov , the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander_Nevsky and Ivan_the_Terrible , performs the lanky Don_Quixote , and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man . Related terms |
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