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lanky

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lanky
adjective
a pale-skinned, lanky youth:
tall, thin, slender, slim, lean, lank, skinny, spindly, spare, gangling, gangly, scrawny, skeletal, scraggly, emaciated, size-zero, bony, gaunt, rawboned, gawky, rangy, skin-and-bones, angular, pinched, attenuated;
informal weedy.
antonyms short, fat, stocky.