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Definition of Scrawniest
1. scrawny [adj] - See also: scrawny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrawniest
Literary usage of Scrawniest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1909)
"Stub Graham was so nicknamed because he was the thinnest and scrawniest boy you
ever saw. He was very tall for his age, and the name of Stub or Stubby was ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1896)
"It is rather a trifling shrub, and it is the scrawniest, thorniest, meanest thing
that I ever saw in my life; never bore any fruit; I do not know whether it ..."
3. Annals of Iowa by State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa Historical Dept (1901)
"The scrawniest and most wrinkled squaw in America, sat Indian style, on the
platform, clad in a calico dress, crooning and repeating a wild lament of eight ..."
4. The American Rose Annual by American Rose Society (1918)
"Many of those who make rose-gardens forget or ignore the law of nature that
bestows on Hybrid Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals the scrawniest, most uninteresting ..."
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