Fleshless
[fleʃlis]
Definition
(a.) Destitute of flesh; lean.
Checker: Sinclair
Examples
- His complexion was of a gipsy darkness; his fleshless cheeks had fallen into deep hollows, over which the bone projected like a pent-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Cold abstraction, fleshless skeleton, daughter, mother, and mate of Death! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Checker: Sinclair