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legless

/ ˈlɛɡlɪs /

adjective

  1. without legs
  2. informal.
    very drunk


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She was married first at the age of sixteen to the legless and lecherous writer Paul Scarron.

A third of the rarest moths of the collection for the man of India were antennaless, legless, wingless, and often headless.

A few yards behind Mr. Bentley came Mr. Allison with the legless chairs.

The next day his legless body was upon a marble slab in the morgue.

Legless dolls and snow-men are named after this foreigner, whose name is associated almost entirely with what is ludicrous.

Many of these legless soldiers with artificial limbs can walk so well that one would never imagine that they had been wounded.

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