Wiktionary
a. Resembling a waif; apparently homeless, starving, etc.
Usage examples of "waiflike".
Perhaps Anne had paid her fee for some kind of miracle cure for her waiflike, nearly anorexic body.
BY But it was Ann who rose silently from bed, a waiflike figure in a long flannel gown.
Salim said that the painting of a nude, waiflike girl with adolescent-sized breasts, reminded him of me.
Evangeline Shreck, tall, slender and positively waiflike in an off-the-shoulder gown, watched her beloved Finlay talking with the notorious Valentine Wolfe and felt an almost overpowering urge to rush over and rescue him.
He looked more waiflike than ever, his eyes huge with shadows in a porcelain face.
He tried to touch up his image of her, making her less waiflike and dependent, less the hapless, whining victim of circumstances, more of a self-propelled inner-guided individual with purpose and direction and a sphere of interests.
I turned to see Rui standing back, waiflike compared to the shaleheads.