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skeletally en · ADV

Etymology

From skeletal + -ly.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:

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