Definition of "waiflike" [waiflike]

• Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc. (adjective)

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• "In the doorway, a giant male fairy with butterfly wings is lighting the cigarette of a waiflike girl dressed in black."
• "A waiflike college student, she was volunteering at a gallery of Communist propaganda posters located in the bowels of a Shanghai apartment complex."
• "So I begin buying way-too-small shirts and pants for myself that I squeeze into in order to look the part of the waiflike English rock star."