lank
adjective
(of plants) unduly long and slender.
lankness
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a word derived from
lank.
Example Sentences
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The gravity of his dress, together with a certain lankness of cheek and stiffness of deportment, added nearly ten years to his age, but his figure was that of one not yet past thirty.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens
Just at this moment Schnetz, in all his lankness, stepped up to their table and greeted the ladies with formal politeness, at the same time shaking hands with his friends.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse
He was greatly changed—older and thinner, with an increased lankness of jaw; but he had regained his equilibrium.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson
He looked careworn; his countenance had assumed a cadaverous hue, and there was a haggardness and lankness about his cheeks and mouth, which could not fail to attract the notice of every spectator.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley
There was, besides, a degree of lankness in the faces of the two men, the very reverse of the plump, round, oily cheeks of those we had before seen.
From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by Sir William Edward Parry
