lankier; lankiest
: ungracefully tall and thin
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the lanky basketball star was great at slam-dunking
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Magan is well aware of the success other long, lanky players who can shoot from the outside have had at Burlington Central.
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Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
The six-foot-tall, lanky, long hair, just zenith prototype beauty standard for my generation.
—Hugh Grant, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
Pack the Pot Add mounding and trailing plants to the base of tall, lanky tropicals.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
The soldier, a lanky, dark-haired sergeant named Vitalii Ovcharenko, met me at a gas-station café on an otherwise deserted stretch of highway near Sumy, not far from Ukraine’s northern border with Russia.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
The six-foot-tall, lanky, long hair, just zenith prototype beauty standard for my generation.
—Hugh Grant, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
Pack the Pot Add mounding and trailing plants to the base of tall, lanky tropicals.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2025
The soldier, a lanky, dark-haired sergeant named Vitalii Ovcharenko, met me at a gas-station café on an otherwise deserted stretch of highway near Sumy, not far from Ukraine’s northern border with Russia.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Lanky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lanky. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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