Definition of "lankily" []

• In a lanky manner; in the manner of a lanky person. (adverb)

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• "A larger book, The Story of the Mark Collection, details the accomplishments of "design legend" Jacques Grange, and his "coterie of magically gifted artists and artisans," ach lankily depicted in an accessory symbolizing European sophistication, like an ascott."
• "He got lankily into motion and presently passed in through the windows ...."
• "And pulling up a handful of pansies by the roots, I find them "without stems," indeed, if a stem means a wooden thing; but I should say, for a low-growing flower, quiet lankily and disagreeably stalky!"