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Перевод: spindly
[прилагательное] веретенообразный; длинный и тонкий
Тезаурус:
- His wide chest tapers to a minuscule waist and spindly useless legs.
- Forest boy, quick of rye, fleet of foot, but pale and spindly and pensive.
- It seemed so feeble and spindly floating there next to the toilet paper in the lavatory bowl.
- 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.
- Here the items for sale were plain and simple: pine towel-rails; severe, spindly chairs; grey-topped washstands; enamel bowls; threadbare rugs.
- 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?
- These will be much stronger and have better flowers than the numerous spindly bits at the ends would produce, if left unpruned.
- Records get knocked out in the studio hastily, emerge knock-kneed, spindly, pallid and monochrome.
- 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.
- "Smith," I said to Spindly Ginger-Nob.
- 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.
- 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.
- As they went up, he looked down through the skeleton of the wheel with its spindly metal bones.
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