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boniest

a. (en-superlativebony)

WordNet
bony
  1. adj. 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" [syn: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]

  2. composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal]

  3. having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist" [syn: boney] [ant: boneless]

  4. [also: boniest, bonier]

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Usage examples of "boniest".

Pretzsch, he had settled like a great heap of sand, grabbing pillows and stuffing them under the boniest parts of his frame, and bracing his feet against the base of the bench that supported his companion, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Well, as the story went, the dude brought in the boniest old swayback nag anyone could imagine.

Janney turned again so that the boniest part of her shoulder leaned against his chest.