The phrase "a scrawny man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is thin or emaciated, often implying a lack of strength or muscle.
Example: "Despite his small stature, the scrawny man surprised everyone with his agility during the race."
Alternatives: "a skinny man" or "a lean man."
It was a stall opposite a Shiva temple, a literal hole in the wall adjacent to a bus stand and run by a scrawny man of indeterminate age.
"Former accountant Derek Bradley," a would-be docent intones, while leading his tour group toward a clay statue of a scrawny man wearing glasses.
The image of football lies, to a great extent, in your hands".Yet to see it in action is to witness a scrawny man on a beach tutting at the beefcake who has kicked sand in his lunch.
There are also global commercials showing a scrawny man and a bikini-clad woman inflating themselves like water toys, revealing muscles and abs that would make Mike Sorrentino, the best-known "Jersey Shore" star, proud.
"This started as self-defence but now we're fighting for his downfall," said Sheikh Mohammed al-Farasi, a scrawny man with bloodshot eyes loading his AK-47 with cartridges.
A scrawny man walks up to me, rolls up his sleeves, presents me with the rash on his upper arm, and says: "I have AIDS, do you have money?" Drug addicts, eccentrics, Turks, artists, and students make up the fauna at Kotti.
That Levi — a timid, scrawny man (five feet five, a hundred and eight pounds) — was one of them seems a miracle.
"Revolution!" scoffs the second, cocking his thumb at the next table, where a scrawny young man with a goatee beard and flat cap is scribbling furiously in a notebook.
So I invent: cheap laminate paneling, dust from marble and granite, a scrawny old man.
Imagine a 21st century book that presents a narrative in which there is a great white master and a scrawny, black man standing before him.
Chris Evans Steve Rogerss has come from being a scrawny young man striving to join the military and stopping the bullies to being beaten down by the events of Winter Solider, changing his outlook on establishment and being feared by the people he's sworn to protect.
