What's the difference between scrawny and skinny?

Scrawny


Definition:

  • (a.) Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the last pictures made public of his time in captivity, over three years ago, Bergdahl looks scrawny and uncertain in brown Afghan shirt and trousers, standing beside an insurgent commander before he is blindfolded and led away.
  • (2) In the first film, he wasn't that hot: long hair, bit scrawny, at least a foot shorter than all the other men in Forks.
  • (3) Art critics since Freud's first shows in the 1940s have had difficulties situating his achievement; the common solution has been to apply adjectives to the painted subjects in a way that reflects little more than personal taste, the writers telling readers whether the person portrayed was bored or intimidated, scrawny or obese, the paint slathered, crumbly or miraculously plastic.
  • (4) A scrawny black dog wanders into the road, sizes up his human visitors and scampers back into the woods.
  • (5) Headline writers dubbed him “the face of protest” – a scrawny Hong Kong student who led tens of thousands of demonstrators out onto the streets in a historic challenge to Beijing.
  • (6) 'They're kind of like punks,' Clark says of the scrawny kids from Compton, 'with the tight jeans and painted shoes.
  • (7) Scrawny coyotes, living on blue-bellied lizards and rodents, glare with yellow suspicious eyes at passing cars, and black vultures with scaly red heads and resentful glares scatter up from feasts of roadkill.
  • (8) The nation that was pleading for an italian defeat just six days ago is now pinning its scrawny hopes on an Italian victory: anything other than that outcome today will confirm England's elimination before the group stage has even ended.
  • (9) Like many of the great old-time comedians ( Ken Dodd or Tommy Cooper , say), Carr has got a comical face; gappy teeth, big specs, scrawny hair, bewildered expression.
  • (10) The day of the Vivaldi concert has arrived and the children stroll into the Friary – scrawny, scally, mischievous – and scratch out a square dance with gusto on their violins and what seem to be hugely outsized cellos.
  • (11) At the top was a scrawny oak with a creviced scar – part of the mouse-sized Bechstein’s main roost.
  • (12) The boy is described as anything but menacing – rather, as withdrawn, antisocial, even "meek", according to an official at his high school, who explained that Adam was only assigned a psychologist because a scrawny, cringing loner might be tormented by peers.
  • (13) He was too scrawny and shortsighted to become a footballer, but he was a promising actor, and his schoolmates voted him Most Popular Boy of his year.
  • (14) And it is a lot more than George Osborne's scrawny £1 valuation of the cost of separation.
  • (15) Taking on one of cinema's most high-profile roles might be a daunting prospect, but his has not quite been a rise from nowhere: 2010 has already been a stellar year for Garfield, whose star has gone supernova with a series of roles that must leave well-established British TV peers like John Simm, David Tennant and Ben Whishaw cursing the scrawny twentysomething.
  • (16) Some are scrawny creatures, rib cages pressing against flea-bitten skin, tumours flapping as they nose through rubbish carts.
  • (17) It worked: they won the league as all their scrawny, tuckered-out rivals faltered along the closing stretch.
  • (18) Back on the side of a road half an hour’s drive outside of Caynabo, Nuur Mohamed says he has been reduced to begging for food in the town and trying to catch scrawny dik-dik antelope by night.

Skinny


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
  • (2) In some patients no skinny changes can be detected.
  • (3) After a couple of weeks they started sending me on epic coffee runs – it's quite a balancing act to transport 10 skinny cappuccinos.
  • (4) "skinny" needle percutaneous cholangiography, and ERC) only in case of clinical, biological and sonographic discrepancies, or in hilar obstructions.
  • (5) In two cases of jaundice due to choledocholithiasis, the biliary tree was not dilated on skinny-needle transhepatic cholangiography.
  • (6) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
  • (7) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
  • (8) Analysts had previously raised questions about whether the quarterback’s skinny frame could hold up against the sort of punishment he was likely to take in the pros.
  • (9) Sixty consecutive patients, who were deeply jaundiced or in whom intravenous cholangiography had failed, were randomized to retrograde endoscopic cholangiography or percutaneous transheptic cholangiograhy with the "skinny" Chiba needle technique.
  • (10) But that skinny teenager has grown into a 5’5” man weighing almost 17 stone – and today he struggles to find clothes to fit his inflated body and complains that seats are becoming too small for comfort.
  • (11) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
  • (12) His defence was, and remains, that negro simply means black in Spanish, and is acceptable in his culture – like calling somebody chubby or skinny.
  • (13) His assistant for the summer, a 16-year-old who wears both the headscarf and an ankle-long overcoat over her skinny jeans, shrugged.
  • (14) Back in the 1980s, he had been accused by a supergrass, Mickey “Skinny” Gervaise, of having taken part in a robbery.
  • (15) The more troubling issue, though, is that this calculation assumes that as the tall-skinny rectangle gets shorter, it does not get wider.
  • (16) Short, skinny and by his own admission somewhat geekish, Wilson nevertheless stood his ground in the inevitable confrontation with the neighbourhood bully at each new school, among them the Gulf Coast Military Academy, which he described as "a carefully planned nightmare engineered for the betterment of the untutored and undisciplined".
  • (17) This time, it’s casual Chuka: skinny jeans with micro turn-ups, blue suede shoes, pristine white shirt, jacket.
  • (18) Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) with a "skinny" Chiba needle identified the biliary tree in 30 of 31 patients (97%) with extrahepatic obstructive cholestasis (EHC).
  • (19) It’ll bend badly if you drive it wearing skinny hipster jeans In, like, three cases ever.
  • (20) What chance does a skinny guy with a dark complexion and a funny name have to get elected president of the United States?

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