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Loose-jointed   /lus-dʒˈɔɪntəd/   Listen
Loose-jointed

adjective
1.
Loosely articulated or constructed.






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"Loose-jointed" Quotes from Famous Books



... of structure may perhaps be illustrated by three different books, all belonging to the intermediate ground between science and art. I should say that Buckle's "History of Civilization," with all its wealth and vigor, is exceedingly loose-jointed in all its logical structure, and also very defective in its literary structure, although it happens to have an element of freshness which is rare in such a work, and carries the reader along. Darwin's "Origin of Species" is better; that has at the bottom a strong logic, whether conclusive ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various

... men was extreme. Each was precisely what the other was not. The one, long, angular, loose-jointed; the other, tight, trim, small, and compact. The one osseous, the other sleek; the one stoop-shouldered, the other erect as a ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris



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