anaemic

Thin, anaemic patients, contrary to what might be expected, usually recover and often their recovery is permanent.

Your colour is watery blue, anaemic, thin, so that the cadaverous yellow of the canvas shines through.

If I cannot credit him with complete success it is because the subsidiary tale of love which he gives us is really too anaemic.

The tribes of New Guinea, rendered anaemic by hunger, dream of eating unlimited sago throughout eternity.