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wisplike - thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

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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At the center of the cacophony is a young man--thin--almost wisplike. He wears sunglasses, which occupy much of his narrow face.

Visions of the American dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer probe at the heart of the national idea

Now we have calls, particularly from critics, for sleekly, muscular men and wisplike or whiplike women.

The weight of bodies: the scales of fatness vary from era to era, not to mention person to person

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