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Skeletal

adjective

Of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton. "Skeletal bones" , "Skeletal muscles"

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold. Synonyms: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted. "A nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys" , "Eyes were haggard and cavernous" , "Small pinched faces" , "Kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

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"Skeletal" Quotes from Famous Books

... of ominous-looking operating tables, some occupied, some empty, about them gathered group after group of white-masked Schrees. These were taller than men, near seven feet, with very bony arms and legs, a skeletal structure altered into attenuation, with high, narrow skulls, great liquid eyes, no brows, hairless skulls showing bare and pointed above the white ...

— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell

... wills it. Buddhas are good subjects; there is a certain genial rotundity not difficult to attain, and the pyramidal build of the idol is well suited to the material. You can start a Buddha, and hedge to make it a loaf of bread if the features are unsatisfactory. For slender objects a skeletal substructure of bent hairpins or matches is advisable. The innate egotism of the human animal becomes very conspicuous. "His tail is too large," says the lady with the fish, in self-criticism. "I haven't put his tail ...

— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells