lankier; lankiest
: ungracefully tall and thin
Examples of lanky in a Sentence
the lanky basketball star was great at slam-dunking
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Earlier in the two-time MVP’s career, at-the-time head coach Jason Kidd dubbed a lanky, 6-foot-11 teenager the team’s floor general.
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Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
That unit would sacrifice size (with no players taller than the lanky, 6-foot-8 Boucher) in the name of spacing and perimeter shooting.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
The lanky redhead also recently appeared in an episode of Poker Face, starring Natasha Lyonne.
—Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
There was always an odd, lanky goofiness to DiCaprio’s physical presence even at the start of his career, but it was overwhelmed by his rapid rise to heartthrob status in films like Romeo + Juliet and Titanic.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
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Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
That unit would sacrifice size (with no players taller than the lanky, 6-foot-8 Boucher) in the name of spacing and perimeter shooting.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
The lanky redhead also recently appeared in an episode of Poker Face, starring Natasha Lyonne.
—Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025
There was always an odd, lanky goofiness to DiCaprio’s physical presence even at the start of his career, but it was overwhelmed by his rapid rise to heartthrob status in films like Romeo + Juliet and Titanic.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Lanky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lanky. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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