Definitions
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- adjective
superlative form oflank : mostlank .
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Examples
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There's nothing remotely catchy here – only the lankest-haired, most red-eyed milkman will be caught whistling these tunes – and, with an average track time of almost six minutes, nothing remotely immediate, either.
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He was the lankest, obliquest-eyed celestial that ever combined an expression of childlike innocence with the appearance of having fallen into a state of permanent disrepair, an outward seeming that much belied the inner man.
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He was the lankest, obliquest-eyed celestial that ever combined an expression of childlike innocence with the appearance of having fallen into a state of permanent disrepair, an outward seeming that much belied the inner man.
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Tragedian (he was the longest and the lankest) minded us not at all.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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West Virginia hogs are the longest, lankest, boniest animals in creation.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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