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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "leanness" in a sentence

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    leanness


    1. 8 And you have filled me by wrinkles which are a witness against me and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face


    2. 15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul


    3. He turned his endeavours into his Music, and his rugged good looks, and strength and virile leanness, kept everyone at bay, whilst it also haunted and taunted, and it was only his hate that kept him surviving those hateful, hurtful school days


    4. He noticed Sam‘s sodden clothes clinging to him highlighting a leanness that bordered on gauntness—face drawn, eyes hollow though still shot through with the fire of steely resolve


    5. " The first to halt were those who were carrying the image, and one of the four ecclesiastics who were chanting the Litany, struck by the strange figure of Don Quixote, the leanness of Rocinante, and the other ludicrous peculiarities he observed, said in reply to him, "Brother, if you have anything to say to us say it quickly, for these brethren are whipping themselves, and we cannot stop, nor is it reasonable we should stop to hear anything, unless indeed it is short enough to be said in two words


    6. So that, gentle sir, neither this horse, nor this lance, nor this shield, nor this squire, nor all these arms put together, nor the sallowness of my countenance, nor my gaunt leanness, will henceforth astonish you, now that you know who I am and what profession I follow


    7. Any one who imagines ten days too short a time—not for falling into leanness, lightness, or other measurable effects of passion, but—for the whole spiritual circuit of alarmed conjecture and


    8. He was still sleeping quietly, but Sam was now struck most by the leanness of his face and hands


    9. What had been leanness in her youth had become transparency in her maturity; and this diaphaneity allowed the angel to be seen


    10. , who had, in the days of his leanness, let Polly run wild with all the college boys of Harmouth, became suddenly particular, as his bank account fattened, in regard to the niceties of conduct in his daughters

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    Synonyms for "leanness"

    leanness spareness thinness exiguity meagerness meagreness poorness scantiness scantness

    "leanness" definitions

    the quality of being meager


    the property of having little body fat