skeletally
English
Etymology
From skeletal + -ly.
Adverb
skeletally (comparative more skeletally, superlative most skeletally)
- Pertaining to the skeleton.
- In a skeletal manner; like a skeleton.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 131:
- A skeletally tall montagnard […], Amirouche had been a member of both the religious Ulema and, in Paris, of Messali's M.T.L.D.
- 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 214:
- When I looked back at the table I saw Seamus Cummings, deeply tanned, skeletally thin, sitting on the opposite side a few seats away[.]
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 131: