Word
| Meaning
| Example
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scrawny
| unattractively thin and bony-looking.
| He was too scrawnyto be a football player.
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lanky
| very tall and thin, and usually moving awkwardly.
| A lankyteenager walked in.
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gangling/ gangly
| with long, thin arms and legs and rather awkward movements; often used of men and boys.
| A gangling/ganglyyouth approached him.
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portly
| with fat stomach and chest; often used humorously about older men.
| A portlyfigure stood near the ticket desk.
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stout
| with a quite fat, solid body; used of men and women.
| She's the stoutwoman wearing glasses, over there.
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corpulent
| fat (formal, literary word).
| She introduced me to a rather corpulentgentleman.
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