skeletally

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adverb

Pertaining to the skeleton.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbskeletally (comparative more skeletally, superlative most skeletally)

comparative more skeletally · superlative most skeletally

  1. Pertaining to the skeleton.
  2. In a skeletal manner; like a skeleton.

    A skeletally tall montagnard […], Amirouche had been a member of both the religious Ulema and, in Paris, of Messali's M.T.L.D.

    1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 131
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    When I looked back at the table I saw Seamus Cummings, deeply tanned, skeletally thin, sitting on the opposite side a few seats away[.]

    2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 214

Origin

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