Definition of spindly
spindlier
;spindliest
1 : of a disproportionately tall or long and thin appearance that often suggests physical weakness spindly legs
2 : frail or flimsy in appearance or structure a spindly tower
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Examples of spindly in a Sentence
spindly, underfed dogs roamed the poverty-stricken village
Recent Examples of spindly from the Web
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Boat tours give travelers entree to a slew of other impressive birds (blue herons, cranes), like at Isla Pajaros or Isla Pasión, where the spindly pink-feathered friends also hang out.
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The exaggerated torsos and spindly limbs of the dolls that hung over his bed — nuns, bullfighters, skeletons — provided a template for his work throughout his life.
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But there are also aesthetic uses, as Cole demonstrates in a spindly minimalist thumb, making it more like a tattoo.
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For his recent album Waterworks (Thrill Jockey) Boston fingerstyle-guitar specialist Glenn Jones planted his spindly, quietly virtuosic take on John Fahey’s American Primitive style within the acoustically challenging Metropolitan Waterworks Museum.
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Fox also has extremely thin legs and a spindly lower body that will need to fill out.
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Landscaper Juan Guadalupe scaled a spindly palm tree more than 50 feet tall in Phoenix, using a chain saw to hack the branches.
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Landscaper Juan Guadalupe scaled a spindly palm tree more than 50 feet tall in Phoenix, using a chain saw to hack the branches.
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Landscaper Juan Guadalupe scaled a spindly palm tree more than 50 feet tall in Phoenix, using a chain saw to hack the branches.
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First Known Use of spindly
1651
SPINDLY Defined for English Language Learners
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: long and thin and usually weak
SPINDLY Defined for Kids
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: being thin and long or tall and usually feeble or weak spindly legs a spindly plant
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