Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slender and elongated, especially in a way that suggests weakness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Spindle-like; disproportionately long and slender or slim.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender. Used in some cases to suggest weakness.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. long and lean
Examples
“The Financial Times called the spindly and demonstrative 38-year-old one of the “Gurus of the Future,” and even conservatives like George Will have written of him approvingly.”
“The south-east Asian variety of the ama really does use an actual log, joined by spindly akas, which don't need to be strongly made because as mentioned already, they are not designed to absorb pressure - they're designed only for delicate balance.”
“Therefore spindly akas and non-buoyant amas are no longer of any use check the ferry in the top photo again and must be discarded in favour of far more buoyant and sturdy amas, as in photos 3 and 4.”
“For a few fleeting moments Milly recalled the spindly horse and the scrubby boy of the delivery wagon, but for only a few moments.”
“As they are digested, smaller dwarf galaxies are severely distorted, forming structures such as spindly tendrils and stellar streams that surround their captors.”
“The "spindly" trees were planted, as one comment poster on our Web site has it.”
“The ipomopsis, my annual annual experiment, are kind of spindly but are starting to put out bright red blooms.”
“A generation before being cast as Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom, Mr. Crawford resembled a kind of spindly, chuckleheaded marionette.”
“The fiction of Richard Powers sometimes resembles a dying satyr — above the waist is a mind full of serious thought, philosophical reflection, deep exploration of music and science; below, a pair of spindly legs strain to support the great weight of the ambitious brain.”
“The first benchmark in his career however was a commission to create furniture for the Royal Festival Hall; the results included his famed armchairs with moulded plywood wings for arms and spindly legs that emphasise lightness and space.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spindly’.
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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Cherished
blóm, alacrity, zephyr, skylark, hot springs, carouse, pallasethesia, twilight, vivific, hootenanny, sastruga, raconteur and 9 more...
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La Pirata's Words
haberdashery, splinter, swarthy, sophomoric, rugby, pirata, maquette, spindly, fortescue, spelunking, squall, scorned and 10 more...
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rradiowar's words
ethereal, silhouette, soliloquy, quiddity, eviscerate, parody, eloquence, quintessence, echelon, pedantic, alacrity, poignant and 37 more...
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A Civil Action (1998)
Words from a 1998 'A Civil Action' film.
plaintiff, preside, eligible, bachelor, eligible bachelor, tannery, self-preservation, thump, punitive, disservice, humiliate, moot and 27 more...
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