| emaciated | | |
| adj. | 1. bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" |
| ~ lean, thin | lacking excess flesh.; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look" |
| piffle | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle | trivial nonsense. |
| ~ hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk | a message that seems to convey no meaning. |
| v. (communication) | 2. blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle | speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. |
| ~ mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter | express in speech.; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" |
| ~ blather, blether, blither, babble, smatter | to talk foolishly.; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby" |
| v. (body) | 3. piffle | act in a trivial or ineffective way. |
| ~ behave, act, do | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" |
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