adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a scrawny kid
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A few scrawny chickens were searching for scraps of food in the dry earth.
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Last time I saw him he was a scrawny kid in Levi's and a dirty T-shirt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above them, tied to a thorn tree, faded red and white streamers dangle like the tattered carcasses of scrawny birds.
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Beside her the pathetic corpse of the servant, the garotte cord still round his scrawny neck.
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The scrawny swarthy-skinned kid in the mirror blinked back at him.
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The most you will see is a scrawny arm waving desperately from between the bars.
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The trees on this bog were bonsai-like black spruce, red maple, and occasional scrawny larch covered with lichens.
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We had a lot of scrawny veterans and their scrawny wives for friends.