suety
Example Sentences
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Turner, with his lumbering gait and broad, suety face, dominates the picture, seeming to personify his age and all its contradictions.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2014
As though, perhaps, he had suddenly seen someone coming toward him, someone he loathed and had always avoided but now would be forced to confront: an aging, suety and slightly repulsive intellectual.
From Time Magazine Archive
Augie is so suety that on a warm day the cooler is the only place he can keep his body heat down.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a flick of one suety hip, the most sensational new basquetbolista in the hemisphere feinted his opponent out of his socks and drove in for the layup.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Doctor's voice happened to be shrill and piercing, with something of the tone of the tooth-comb and tissue-paper; while the fat cook spoke in a suety, husky contralto.
From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen
