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Definition of scrawny : Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

Synonyms:

close, jagged, weedy, scrabbly, penny-pinching, tightfitting, bony, gaunt, inferior, fat, twiggy, scraggy, near, angular, scrubby, tight fitting, rawboned, jaggy, stunted, all skin and bones, fleshless, lank, thin as a rail, underweight, boney, tightly fitting, cheeseparing

narrow, lanky, tight, skinny, thin, slender, lean, tenuous, skeletal, fine, willowy

teeny-weeny, miserly, delicate, slim, scant, scanty, petite, diminutive, little, toy, piddling, stingy, modest, dwarfish, teensy, wee, itty-bitty, trifling, weeny, smallish, negligible, small, deficient, tiny, microscopic, meager, minor, teeny, picayune, compact, pocket, spare, sparing, slight, short, niggardly, paltry, nugatory, baby, minute, bantam, miniature, puny, ungenerous, beggarly, minimal

Usage examples:

• One look at the village's scrawny occupants seemed to have convinced him that his life was in no danger. - "The Holes Around Mars", Jerome Bixby.
• In spite of the fact that Hannah was a good housekeeper and prided herself on cleanliness, the tiny flat reeked with the smell of cooking, and Janet, from the upper hall, had a glimpse of a thin, angular woman with a scrawny neck, with scant grey hair tightly drawn into a knot, in a gingham apron covering an old dress bending over the kitchen stove. - "The Dwelling Place of Light, Complete", Winston Churchill Last Updated: March 5, 2009.
• N- ow, y're a nice young fellow- a bit scrawny, though. - "The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story", Various.