| 单词 | meagre-faced |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeagre-faced Parasynthetic, as meagre-faced, meagre-hearted, meagre-hued, meagre-looked, meagre-looking, meagre-minded, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. E2v That pale leane-fac'd meager-hewed enuie. 1644 J. Howell Englands Teares Ded. Methinks I spie meagre-fac'd Famine making towards thee. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xxix. 119 This Meagre-look'd..Shrovetide. 1754 W. Dodd Sisters I. 184 The house..now became neglected, and forsaken, except by the hungry tradesman, and the thin and meagre-looking creditor. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton 247 A tall, thin, meagre-looking old man. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvi. 199 To have renounced Tito..would have been meagre-hearted folly. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. ix. 226 Cold-hearted, thankless, meagre-minded creature as I know he is. 1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xviii. 229 She ran after Ian and found him on the front lawn, standing helplessly, meagre-looking and miserable. < as lemmas |
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