English to French Meaning of spindly - grêle

Spindly :

grêle

Spindly :: grêle

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Definitions of spindly in English

Adjective(1) long and lean

Examples of spindly in English

(1) He broke off as the door to their room opened and a sharp-faced, preternaturally thin man with spindly arms and legs tightly covered by taut sunbaked skin peered inside.(2) The oleanders have grown tall and spindly , and they have few blooms.(3) Quite ready for a lie-down, Jon sat in a large red chair next to a spindly little table.(4) Zim's spindly arms and legs, Gaz's angry squint, and Dib's unimaginably large head are all hallmarks of Vasquez's designs.(5) Bailey captured them seated practically back to back on spindly gilt chairs at a fashion show, in an invisible yet palpable fog of unpleasantness.(6) Infected tomato plant leaves become mottled and discolored and the stalks grow weak and spindly .(7) He was a rather thin, spindly boy with plain brown hair and plain brown eyes and plain, light brown skin.(8) Seeds are notoriously over-sown, producing far too many weak, spindly seedlings.(9) Aradia, Gwydion and Faunus were made to sit in three rickety and spindly chairs before the thirteen members of the Society of Sorcerers.(10) He swung open the door and saw a big giant sitting down on a spindly chair that Leon doubted could hold him up.(11) There was a basketball hoop in the front, and a tall, spindly tree covered in Christmas lights overlooking the left side of the driveway.(12) The rest of my clothes had been folded neatly onto a spindly chair in the corner of the room, but they too were in desperate need of a pressing.(13) A tall tech with spindly legs and oversized glasses shrieks as he starts to pick up the poor damaged piece of gadgetry like it's his own child.(14) Jenny was tall and spindly , and Dean hardly had any hair.(15) The dress she's wearing only just covers her thin and bony frame, and her spindly legs poke out above long white lumpy kneesocks.(16) It was featherless, but stood a foot tall on spindly jointed legs; its face was avian but - like the body - fat and dotted with patchy, moulting orange fur.

(1) mitotic spindle ::

fuseau mitotique

Synonyms

Adjective

1. lanky ::

dégingandé

2. rickety ::

rachitique

3. lank ::

grêle

Different Forms

spindly

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