The word 'scrawny' is a perfectly acceptable and usable English word.
You can use it to describe someone or something that is thin and lanky in an unflattering way. For example: "The scrawny boy had to wear hand-me-downs to school every day."
Film London, the strategic support agency for cinema and media in the capital, saw its funding from the London Development Agency cut earlier this year by 22% from a meagre £1.66m to a scrawny £1.3m.
There are scrawny ultras with their desert caps and ankle gaiters as well as jokey groups of walkers with sticks and cagoules.
Marathon runners are scrawny individuals, the best of whom tell stories of running to school in the highlands of East Africa (high altitude breeds lungs better able to supply red blood corpuscles).
In a cabin of scrawny nine-year-old Jewish girls, she was our hero.
It builds up the character of the treacherous young man turned scrawny old satyr as he sheds and assumes his identities.
Most of the plains Pokot, unlike those who grow crops on the Rift Valley escarpment above, scrape a living from scrawny cattle and goats.
In 1918 they waited vainly for him to emerge, scrawny but alive, from some German camp.
The customers who reported encounters to the website we analysed clearly value the stereotypical features of Western beauty: women they describe as slim but not scrawny, or as having long blonde hair or full breasts, can charge the highest hourly rates (see chart 3).
At a time when serious, black hip-hop artists from the Bronx were spitting verses on gang violence and black power, these scrawny Jewish kids from Brooklyn and Manhattan had broadened the appeal of rap beyond the ghetto.
There he would keep the score for pocket money and, little by little, start to play himself, a scrawny creature with fast, feline grace who would prowl around the table and seem to know at once how to build a break or make a clearance, always three balls ahead of himself.
IN HIS backyard, behind a makeshift fence to keep his two scrawny chickens from digging it up, Raul Alaniz has a tiny patch where he keeps earthworms, feeding them food scraps, which they will turn into organic fertiliser, which he hopes to sell.
