rachitic
- a word derived from rachitis.
Example Sentences
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A sequence of rachitic little drawings by Tracey Emin – whose monoprints are so ubiquitous as to have become museum wallpaper – cannot compete with those of her heroine, Louise Bourgeois.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2012
Before she was three years old, a series of infantile diseases had left Gwen so rachitic and knock-kneed that she could barely walk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Manhattan's sensitive transportation, from scabby subways to rachitic taxicabs, were strained to the limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every year they travel thousands of miles by train, bus, and paddle steamer to play in some 80 of the rachitic towns along the coasts and in the Australian outback.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have also met persons who claim to have been cured of rachitic troubles in their youth by eating a puppy dog cooked in a saucepan.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
