bareboned
Americanadjective
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lean or spare, as a person.
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emaciated; gaunt.
bareboned victims of a terrible famine.
Etymology
Origin of bareboned
1590–1600; bare 1 + boned, from the earlier use bare-bones or bare-bone a lean person
Example Sentences
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So now he has slashed his staff to a bareboned 2,000, which touched off a protest march by 500 of the dismissed employees.
From Time Magazine Archive
M.P.s had plenty to worry about�a coal shortage, a meat shortage, the shock of rearmament on Britain's bareboned economy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The customer is set down in Rome's bareboned, modern Stazione Termini.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was standing in not a very happy mood, and leaning against the donkey's neck, when a butcher's boy came jogging along upon his shaggy and bareboned pony.
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.
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