bareboned
Americanadjective
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lean or spare, as a person.
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emaciated; gaunt.
bareboned victims of a terrible famine.
Etymology
Origin of bareboned
1590–1600; bare 1 + boned, from the earlier use bare-bones or bare-bone a lean person
Example Sentences
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M.P.s had plenty to worry about�a coal shortage, a meat shortage, the shock of rearmament on Britain's bareboned economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The customer is set down in Rome's bareboned, modern Stazione Termini.
From Time Magazine Archive
So now he has slashed his staff to a bareboned 2,000, which touched off a protest march by 500 of the dismissed employees.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was standing in not a very happy mood, and leaning against the donkey's neck, when a butcher's boy came jogging along upon his shaggy and bareboned pony.
From Project Gutenberg
A great black pot with open lid swung over it, from which rose a slight steam and a bubbling noise; and this huge, gaunt, bareboned, hungry man, looking into it, saw a large raw swede, just as from the field, with only the greens cut off, simmering for his supper.
From Project Gutenberg
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