wisplike


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Adj.1.wisplike - thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson
wispy
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
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