spindly
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6.2
- adjective
- /ˈspɪndli/
- The door opens... and there, sitting behind his desk is this spindly little man... with these bottle-thick glasses.
- spindly legs
- spindly tree
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- And so those guys tend to have spindly legs and huge torsos.
- You cut that off and you're left with a spindly fleshy bit.
- Buck teeth, tall, spindly, looking a little bit like the Slender Man.
- It had spindly arms and legs.
- These little old stem cells, healthy stem cells around these stem cells had started to become all spindly like tree branches.
- And if you scale up the size of the Ant, it's weight outstrips the ability of these spindly legs to hold them up.
- They look a bit like the Lander that we first sent to the moon, like a kind of globe with a long spindle and like spindly legs.
- To replace the toilet paper roll if it's empty, not just rest the new one on that little spindly thing.
Examples
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The plant grew tall and spindly, struggling to reach the sunlight.
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And so those guys tend to have spindly legs and huge torsos.
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The stage manager and his assistant pull at his spindly legs and arms.
Fiction book (1990) -
His eyes fill with courage, and he charges toward the spindly bridge that leads to his master and friends.
Fiction book (1994) -
It had spindly arms and legs.
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I climb the spider trees and sleep within the leaves among the spindly branches.
Fiction book (1994) -
The cot, a card table with spindly legs, and the beach chair were all his furniture.
Fiction book (1995) -
Here and there, green, spindly leaves poked up through last year's grass clumps.
Fiction book (1992) -
We tie up at a long, spindly pier jutting out from Pilottown.
Fiction book (1998) -
The Dugbo practitioner was a spindly little man dressed in brown rags and boots of uncured leather.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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4.0
A person who is tall and thin with long arms and legs that look a little awkward
10
6.1
Being tall and thin with long, awkward arms and legs
7
3.8
Thin and light in form, like a small person or light cloth
5
6.4
Thin and delicate like a spider's web or legs
3
7.4
Long, thin, and limp, often about hair or a person's body
3
7.2
Tall and thin with long arms and legs
1
7.5
Thin and weak in a way that makes it likely to break
1
9.0
A person or animal with long thin legs
1
8.5
A thing like a chair or bird with long, thin legs that look delicate
Likely to wobble or break, like a weak chair
Antonyms
How Thin
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word spindly comes from spindle, a thin rod used for spinning thread, and the ending -y means 'like'. So spindly means 'like a spindle', which is why we use it for things that are long, thin, and often weak.