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Textual thesaurus for "pinched"

(adj) haggard, skeletal, cadaverous, bony, emaciated, gaunt, 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


(adj) adenoidal, nasal

sounding as if the nose were pinched

a whining nasal voice


(adj) impecunious, in straitened circumstances, hard up, penniless, penurious

not having enough money to pay for necessities