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Перевод: spindly

[прилагательное]
веретенообразный; длинный и тонкий

Тезаурус:

1. His wide chest tapers to a minuscule waist and spindly useless legs.
2. Forest boy, quick of rye, fleet of foot, but pale and spindly and pensive.
3. It seemed so feeble and spindly floating there next to the toilet paper in the lavatory bowl.
4. Not wishing to be a pansy, I stepped up my pace too, but I was no match for the male legs I was pursuing since both of my spindly little limbs could fit into the right leg of his breeches.
5. Here the items for sale were plain and simple: pine towel-rails; severe, spindly chairs; grey-topped washstands; enamel bowls; threadbare rugs.
6. How can Greece, the birthplace of Classical architecture, justify a mirror-glass box with spindly steel pavilions, or the Vatican another exercise in plate glass which appears to have been spawned by Texas Homecare?
7. These will be much stronger and have better flowers than the numerous spindly bits at the ends would produce, if left unpruned.
8. Records get knocked out in the studio hastily, emerge knock-kneed, spindly, pallid and monochrome.
9. The Big Wheel, with its spindly framework of long, slender struts, girders, and bracing wires stood out in delicate black outline against the thinning white mist.
10. "Smith," I said to Spindly Ginger-Nob.
11. He thought its vibrations would shake the pictures off the walls and the vases off the spindly legged tables they had passed in the hall below.
12. On bushes and standards, prune strong new stems to 4-;6in, shorten weaker growths and remove very spindly tips on climbers; shorten weak growth by half and stronger stems by a third or more according to desired height.
13. As they went up, he looked down through the skeleton of the wheel with its spindly metal bones.