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  • adverb In a lanky manner; in the manner of a lanky person.

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Examples

  • A larger book, The Story of the Mark Collection, details the accomplishments of "design legend" Jacques Grange, and his "coterie of magically gifted artists and artisans," ach lankily depicted in an accessory symbolizing European sophistication, like an ascott.

    Is The Mark Trying Too Hard? 2007

  • A larger book, The Story of the Mark Collection, details the accomplishments of "design legend" Jacques Grange, and his "coterie of magically gifted artists and artisans," ach lankily depicted in an accessory symbolizing European sophistication, like an ascott.

    Is The Mark Trying Too Hard? 2007

  • A larger book, The Story of the Mark Collection, details the accomplishments of "design legend" Jacques Grange, and his "coterie of magically gifted artists and artisans," ach lankily depicted in an accessory symbolizing European sophistication, like an ascott.

    Is The Mark Trying Too Hard? 2007

  • He got lankily into motion and presently passed in through the windows ....

    The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • And pulling up a handful of pansies by the roots, I find them "without stems," indeed, if a stem means a wooden thing; but I should say, for a low-growing flower, quiet lankily and disagreeably stalky!

    Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • Essential to the show's appeal are the rough, lankily angular character designs (complete with hatched shadows) that, when combined with the cleverly tweaked archetypical personalities, transcend distinctive and approach iconic.

    Anime News Network 2009

  • All the tall guys stopped reading at the headline, and are now lankily making their way to their doctors 'offices worldwide.

    The Trouble With Spikol 2008

  • Belafonte’s outspoken conviction was no secret to the millions of Middle Americans who loved his calypso-tinged hits and recognized the lankily handsome performer from movies and television specials.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Belafonte’s outspoken conviction was no secret to the millions of Middle Americans who loved his calypso-tinged hits and recognized the lankily handsome performer from movies and television specials.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Belafonte’s outspoken conviction was no secret to the millions of Middle Americans who loved his calypso-tinged hits and recognized the lankily handsome performer from movies and television specials.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

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