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spindly /ˈspɪndli /adjective (spindlier, spindliest)1Long or tall and thin: spindly arms and legs...- He broke off as the door to their room opened and a sharp-faced, preternaturally thin man with spindly arms and legs tightly covered by taut sunbaked skin peered inside.
- Instead of viciously attacking them, the amphibian began to speak in a gurgling voice, thin spindly arms waving about.
- It was featherless, but stood a foot tall on spindly jointed legs; its face was avian but - like the body - fat and dotted with patchy, moulting orange fur.
Synonyms tall, thin, skinny, lean, lanky, spare, gangling, gangly, scrawny, scraggy, bony, size-zero, raw-boned, gawky, rangy, angular informal weedy dated spindle-shanked 1.1Weak or insubstantial in construction: spindly chairs...- Aradia, Gwydion and Faunus were made to sit in three rickety and spindly chairs before the thirteen members of the Society of Sorcerers.
- The women cower behind the spindly couches and fragile chairs.
- To unpack this, I would add that the color of ITC Garamond makes it weak and spindly on the page, something we really don't care for today.
Synonyms rickety, flimsy, wobbly, shaky, fragile, frail, insubstantial RhymesBrindley |