spidery

Soon Stilts would be stepping his spidery legs over me to face off with Frank.
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Around the edges in her own spidery scrawl she would ask how I was.
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Here is a large pile of spectacles, a spidery mass of rusted wire-frames and dusty lenses.
My Visit To Hell|Christopher Buckley|January 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
So did the spidery bridge that swings the ferry across the Old Harbour's mouth.
Essays in Rebellion|Henry W. Nevinson

My underpinning is good, too; I'm not one of these fellows with spidery legs and a barrel-chest.
The Valley of the Giants|Peter B. Kyne
The others heard, but went on somnolently feeding with spidery movements of their lean arms.
The Rescue|Joseph Conrad
It splashed like a liquid flame over men and metal and twisted the towers and buttresses into spidery tendrils of glowing thread.
The Peacemaker|Alfred Coppel
He sprang among the wires with a spidery sort of agility, caught one, pulled and hung upon it with, all his weight.
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British Dictionary definitions for spidery

spidery

/ (ˈspaɪdərɪ) /

adjective

thin and angular like a spider's legsspidery handwriting

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