Lankier

Jackman has played Wolverine in four films already, and often played him lankier than the comic portrays the mutant superhero, a sturdy, hardened warrior. ❋ Jordan Zakarin (2011)

Tom stood an inch higher than his father and was lankier. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It comes on plastic spools white and quite short-and-thick, this time and is much lankier than Gütermann. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

He was only an inch taller than me but had a lankier frame and long limbs, so I expected him to keep his distance and use his jab and reach to draw me in and try to find a way to take me down. ❋ Randy Couture With Loretta Hunt (2008)

Caddy, 69, genial and soft-spoken, with a persuasive mouse-brown dye job, resembled a lean, lankier John Ashcroft. ❋ Friend, David (2008)

Then Peter -- lankier, edgier and a year older -- delivers the coup de grace. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The "eastern" or Grauer's gorilla is unique to the DRC and distinct from the mountain gorilla — lankier and not as bushy, with longer forearms. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She managed to elbow the lankier attacker in the chin, but the other, easily double her size and weight, cold-cocked her across the jaw. ❋ Julie Leto (2006)

However, not a head turned when Mr. Norton, taller and lankier than one might have guessed, entered the room. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His brother, Dale, three years younger, is taller, lankier, and more taciturn — a man who likes fast airplanes, automobiles, and motorcycles. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Once when it was being the recipient of such attention, the lankier of its human companions caught it purring thunderously to itself. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)

About this time, Fool's Gold romped up, lankier for his week of privation but apparently none the worse for all his suffering. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1994)