scrawniest
- superlative of scrawny.
Example Sentences
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Grant Hill: You know, Michael, there once was this kid, the scrawniest, geekiest kid you ever saw.
From Slate ● May 5, 2019
Instead, Stern offered the “Trump Tree,” which the tycoon, in “The Art of the Deal” dismissed as one of “the ugliest, scrawniest little trees you’re ever likely to see.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2015
Kharey Wise, by far the scrawniest of the group, happened to be the only one old enough to spend all his time in adult jail and prison.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2012
As the scrawniest of the four Kennedy boys, he was lost amid the the physical grace and athletic prowess of his brothers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Always they were the scrawniest or the ugliest or the dirtiest or the stupidest boys, picked on by everyone else, with no one left uglier or stupider than they but her.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
