| Lean |
| Gaunt |
| Skinny |
| Osseous |
| Angular |
| Scrawny |
| Thin -- |
| Anorexic |
| Too thin |
| Skeletal |
| Emaciated |
| Meatless? |
| Like shad |
| Rail-thin |
| Very thin |
| Really thin |
| Quite gaunt |
| Very skinny |
| Overly thin |
| Like herring |
| Rather spare |
| Way too thin |
| Not filleted |
| Far from fat |
| Beyond svelte |
| Extremely thin |
| Lean as a rake |
| Beyond slender |
| Jagger's frame |
| More than lean |
| Like some fish |
| Like a skeleton |
| Excessively thin |
| Unhealthily thin |
| Thinner than thin |
| Without much meat |
| Adjective for shad |
| Hardly well-rounded |
| Like some cooked fish |
| Like very thin people |
| Not filleted, as fish |
| Anorexic in appearance |
| Not filleted, as a fish |
| Like unfilleted sardines |
| Without much meat or fat |
| Lacking meat, so to speak |
| Very skinny, like a skeleton |
| Really skinny, like a skeleton |
| Like Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie |
| Like fish that are difficult to eat |
| Like sardines that are not filleted |