skeletally
advEtymology From skeletal + -ly.
1
Pertaining to the skeleton.
2
In a skeletal manner; like a skeleton.
- A skeletally tall montagnard […], Amirouche had been a member of both the religious Ulema and, in Paris, of Messali's M.T.L.D.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 131:
- When I looked back at the table I saw Seamus Cummings, deeply tanned, skeletally thin, sitting on the opposite side a few seats away[.]2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 214: