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- adverb Pertaining to loss of
appetite oranorexia .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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Since Motorola introduced the RAZR, Americans have like their phones to be anorexically thin.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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We import damn near everything/ We sit around being fat and sloppy or anorexically unhealthy.
Watermelon and Core Transformation Steven Barnes 2009
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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
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They're there to display themselves so they kind of swan anorexically through this crowd of unix sysadmins and they're, like ...
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She was thinner than I had ever seen her, almost anorexically thin, and dangerously feverish.
Spin 2005
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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
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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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