lathy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of lathy
Example Sentences
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“Why, when we rode away on our search you looked a mere boy; you are coming back to the old home both of you men grown, if you weren’t so lathy and thin.”
From The Peril Finders by Piffard, Harold
As he spoke a tall, lathy form emerged from the mist.
From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John
Phineas was tall and lathy, red-haired, with an expression of great acuteness and shrewdness in his face.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
He was a product of your own clean, sweet imagination, but let me tell you—" she made a swift feminine turn to the trivial, "You'll marry a tall, lathy man, or a short, dumpy man.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin
They told me there that it is the effect of the dry Australian climate and the long summer heat, native-born Australians having a tendency to grow thin and lathy.
From A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Smiles, Samuel
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