Ejemplos de uso de runty
1. Smith was runty, fearless, wily to the point of being cocky.
2. George Wallace, whom he called "a runty little bastard, just about the most dangerous person around." Sensing the awakening public sentiment, Johnson gave one of his most powerful speeches on March 15.
3. Peter York, who knew Toby when he ‘still had hair and looked like Kevin Bacon‘s runty younger brother‘, believes that his entire subsequent career has been a prolonged rebellion against his parents‘ values. ‘All the things he aligned himself with were calculated to upset that sort of liberal sensibility.‘ His mother, for instance, came from Calvinist missionary stock and, according to Toby, ‘found any kind of extravagance almost physically painful.