adjective
definition
Thin, malnourished and weak.
Examples of scrawny in a Sentence
He looked like any normal nerdy American with big glasses and a scrawny frame.
When I first met Mr McMuffin I was very scrawny.
You can have the most beautiful ornaments in the world, but if your tree is scrawny and odd-shaped, you'll have trouble competing for the coveted title of best decorated tree.
So he bawled at her " Hurry up scrawny " .
They are too scrawny for beef and used to be transported to continental veal crates.
So he bawled at her " Hurry up scrawny ".
A male calf, too scrawny for the meat industry, is often shot.
He was an intense man, with his shirt buttoned to his scrawny neck, the creases in his trousers like knives.
He was a small, scrawny man who had no real signs of life except for a faint green glow smoldering behind his eyes.
A few inches away writhes a scrawny boy, born one month prematurely, also jaundiced.
That wind, laden with the bitter dust, knifed into Sharba 's scrawny body.
Do you we really want to see more tantrums and her awful scrawny arms waving about like a maniac?
All we've been able to produce since we came to America is one scrawny little girl.
He may be so scrawny and unattractive as a pup that you have to fall in love with him.
Across a searing, unending plain of sand, an isolated camel train picks its way toward the shelter of a scrawny tree.
They all had Lankha.s flat face, no nose, bug eyes, and scrawny little bodies with feathery hands.
He puffed himself up, the scrawny body of a juvenile who hadn't thought to carry more wood to a dying fire.
She was expecting a big-boobed beauty, not the scrawny girl.