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Webster 1913 Edition


Leanly

Lean′ly

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adv.
Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

Webster 1828 Edition


Leanly

LE'ANLY

,
adv.
Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

Definition 2024


leanly

leanly

English

Adverb

leanly (comparative more leanly, superlative most leanly)

  1. In a lean way.
    • 2008 June 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Athletes Disabled by Wars Lead Iraqi Team in World Games”, in New York Times:
      Faraj Hasab Khudhair, Iraq’s star wheelchair fencer, lost a leg below the knee to a mortar shell in 1986. Mr. Khudhair, a fit, leanly muscled 41-year-old, said he ventured out during United States airstrikes in his Diyala Bridge neighborhood of Baghdad to get to training sessions.