Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being bony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition or quality of being bony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the property or degree of being
bony
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
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Examples
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Same in Canada, a Muskies, "boniness" varies on the season, and how well the fish is eating, but if you are asking for eating reasons, then i have no idea.
Obama's "bow" 2009
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Same in Canada, a Muskies, "boniness" varies on the season, and how well the fish is eating, but if you are asking for eating reasons, then i have no idea.
Obama's "bow" 2009
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Thin to the point of boniness, with a sharp-angled face, sparse graying hair, and mournful eyes, he was easily accepted by drug dealers as a likely customer to purchase a fix.
I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011
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His fingers 'long boniness brought me back to an old familiarity.
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Beneath the coat he wore a green shirt with the top three buttons opened, revealing a chest of tubercular hue and boniness, offset by a rakish red kerchief drawn loosely around his thin neck.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Beneath the coat he wore a green shirt with the top three buttons opened, revealing a chest of tubercular hue and boniness, offset by a rakish red kerchief drawn loosely around his thin neck.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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Beneath the coat he wore a green shirt with the top three buttons opened, revealing a chest of tubercular hue and boniness, offset by a rakish red kerchief drawn loosely around his thin neck.
EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010
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As a society, we have to break the equation of celebrity and boniness.
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Weird milky eyes with no pupil, limbs too long for their thin boniness, and they ... bent.
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Hudson was within shouting distance of fifty, thin to the point of boniness, with a sharp nose and a sharp tongue and a refined voice.
Two Weeks To Remember Neels, Betty 1986
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