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Definition of starveling in English: starvelingnoun ˈstɑːvlɪŋˈstɑrvlɪŋ archaic An undernourished or emaciated person or animal. Example sentencesExamples - Truth, however gently expressed, cuts deep; cockroaches do not deter starvelings from the soup.
- Acton had been a starveling when Lombard had found him during one of his rare excursions to the royal city beside the ocean.
- But announcing the intention to send the starvelings back to what is loosely called their home is not a task that everyone would relish.
- Swank convinces us of a peculiar combination in Maggie, a white trash starveling who's come to L.A. and trained herself onto the women's undercards of men's bouts: she feels she has nothing to lose and yet isn't at all downhearted.
Synonyms skin and bone, stick, scrag
adjective ˈstɑːvlɪŋˈstɑrvlɪŋ archaic Lacking enough food; emaciated. Example sentencesExamples - The redhead Susanna, scarlet-lipped, rose-flushed, and wrinkle-necked, contrasts with the starveling look of the foremost elder.
- So why would our own starveling country want two more of these vagrant landing-strips, whatever the asking price may turn out to be?
- ‘And Carmel, begun by starveling writers and unwanted painters, is now a community of the well-to-do and the retired.’
- Yvonne catches sight of Macho Man P.J., instant ‘star’ of her starveling fantasy life.
Synonyms slim, lean, slender, rangy, willowy, svelte, sylphlike, spare, slight
Definition of starveling in US English: starvelingnounˈstɑrvlɪŋˈstärvliNG archaic An undernourished or emaciated person or animal. Example sentencesExamples - Truth, however gently expressed, cuts deep; cockroaches do not deter starvelings from the soup.
- But announcing the intention to send the starvelings back to what is loosely called their home is not a task that everyone would relish.
- Acton had been a starveling when Lombard had found him during one of his rare excursions to the royal city beside the ocean.
- Swank convinces us of a peculiar combination in Maggie, a white trash starveling who's come to L.A. and trained herself onto the women's undercards of men's bouts: she feels she has nothing to lose and yet isn't at all downhearted.
Synonyms skin and bone, stick, scrag
adjectiveˈstɑrvlɪŋˈstärvliNG archaic (of a person or animal) lacking enough food; emaciated. Example sentencesExamples - The redhead Susanna, scarlet-lipped, rose-flushed, and wrinkle-necked, contrasts with the starveling look of the foremost elder.
- Yvonne catches sight of Macho Man P.J., instant ‘star’ of her starveling fantasy life.
- So why would our own starveling country want two more of these vagrant landing-strips, whatever the asking price may turn out to be?
- ‘And Carmel, begun by starveling writers and unwanted painters, is now a community of the well-to-do and the retired.’
Synonyms slim, lean, slender, rangy, willowy, svelte, sylphlike, spare, slight
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