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Runty

Runty \Runt"y\, a. Like a runt; diminutive; mean.

Wiktionary
runty

a. 1 having the characteristics of a runt 2 diminutive

WordNet
runty
  1. adj. well below average height [syn: pint-size, pint-sized, sawed-off, sawn-off]

  2. (used especially of persons) of inferior size [syn: puny, shrimpy]

Usage examples of "runty".

In the Late Cretaceous the iguanodonts appear to have retreated to a few island archipelagoes in watery Europe, such as Transylvania, where some runty and primitive-looking browsers have been found.

All were, with their beards and uncropped hair and furs, as shaggy as their runty ponies, and even from more than fifty meters, the combined stench of them was gaggingly indescribable.

A cross-eyed Jersey-Guernsey cross -- runty, unassuming, and as unpretty as her father -- yet this wallflower was to be the first to clear Abdul of the charge of Flagrant Ferdinandeering.

A runty, bowlegged man with a short grizzled beard emerged, carrying a mess of dirty linens and a bucket with a closed lid.

On a basketball team, you see, whenever you have a little runty clumsy guy that can’.