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  • adverb Pertaining to loss of appetite or anorexia.

Etymologies

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From anorexic +‎ -ally.

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Examples

  • At malls, on mobile-phone ads, in the background as we work at our computers: pop, usually in the form of anorexically thin MP3 sound, is everywhere these days.

    Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review 2011

  • It's one thing to make the character anorexically thin -- that is unhelpful enough, but everyone does it.

    Ilana Teitelbaum: The Girl Who Read Enough of Stieg Larsson 2010

  • Sometimes we were joined by Hannah, a silent, anorexically thin girl with blond eyebrows and a shock of white hair whose mother and father eerily looked like twins, and whose three identical brothers all seemed a little retarded.

    I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009

  • Since Motorola introduced the RAZR, Americans have like their phones to be anorexically thin.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • We import damn near everything/ We sit around being fat and sloppy or anorexically unhealthy.

    Watermelon and Core Transformation Steven Barnes 2009

  • Unless I am feeling anorexically skinny (that would be never, in case you were wondering), I absolutely hate standing on a scale in front of anybody else.

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2007

  • They're there to display themselves so they kind of swan anorexically through this crowd of unix sysadmins and they're, like ...

    Boing Boing: May 16, 2004 - May 22, 2004 Archives 2004

  • She was thinner than I had ever seen her, almost anorexically thin, and dangerously feverish.

    Spin 2005

  • Francine was an anorexically thin woman in her thirties, who seemed to be wearing a size-eight skin over a size-two body.

    The Bonesetter's Daughter TAN, Amy 2001

  • I drove past the flesh clubs, the new-music caverns, titanic show-biz billboards, and the anorexically oriented boutiques of the Strip, crossed Doheny and slipped into the dollar-shrines of Beverly Hills.

    Devil's Waltz Kellerman, Jonathan 1992

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