Lank

(adj.) long and lean .

(adj.) long and thin and often limp; 'grown lank with fasting'; 'lank mousy hair' .

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• He had been constrained to depute Mr Venus to keep their dusty friend, Boffin, under inspection, while he himself turned lank and lean at the Bower. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Their hungry eyes and their lank forms continually suggested one glaring, unsentimental fact--they wanted what they term in California a square meal. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The second man was a long, dried-up creature, with lank hair and sallow cheeks. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The sight of his lank black figure and the lonesome air of that nook in the dark were favourable to the state of my mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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