anorexic

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English actress Keira Knightley is sick of people making comments about her body and calling her anorexic, so her answer to this problem is to get pregnant.

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  1. adjective Suffering from or afflicted with anorexia nervosa.
  2. adjective Anorectic.
  3. adjective Characterized by severe economy of style and expression: "The book consists of nineteen rather anorexic stories, stripped of all but vestigial traces of emotion and often of plot” (Madison Smartt Bell).

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