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boniness

NOUN
  1. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

How To Use boniness In A Sentence

  • It is an uncomfortable feeling to find in her sickness the conventions of beauty - boniness and pallor.
  • Weird milky eyes with no pupil, limbs too long for their thin boniness, and they ... bent. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • His fingers 'long boniness brought me back to an old familiarity. Coming Back To Earth As A Dog
  • The critic recently slammed her ‘obscene’ boniness, which she felt cynically exploited real-life victims of famine, illness and genocide.
  • Thin to the point of boniness, with a sharp-angled face, sparse graying hair, and mournful eyes, he was easily accepted by drug dealers as a likely customer to purchase a fix. I’ll Walk Alone
  • Round, plump or normal-sized women have become the secretly desired, the quiet lust of men pushed towards boniness rather than bonniness.
  • As a society, we have to break the equation of celebrity and boniness. Liz Perle: The Model of Thin
  • Somehow his boniness and gauntness extends to his personality.
  • She made a silly face (though, because of the boniness of her cheeks, it looked more like Munch's The Scream).
  • She could hardly bear the boniness of Mam's shoulders, jagged points through the thin nightie. THE GOLDEN LION
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