rawboned
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of rawboned
Example Sentences
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On Dec. 10, 1959, CBS, in partnership with Revlon, broadcast a prime-time special called “Tonight With Belafonte,” produced and hosted by Harry Belafonte, the debonair and rawboned Jamaican-American singer.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2020
Kirschling, a rawboned young man from Wisconsin, had written a master’s thesis at Columbia about long-term productivity decline in New York City’s mass transit.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
The tall, rawboned loner, who was then in his sixth decade of life, fell in love with the forested mountains and granite formations of Custer State Park.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 19, 2017
As Burwell himself noted, to have placed conventional music into the film at any juncture would have completely destroyed the values that made it such a tour de force of rawboned realism and anxiety.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017
He proved good as his word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying everybody owned.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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