thickset
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Jayden — who had grown thickset, with curly black hair and a pigeon-toed waddle — needed new socks and sippy cups.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2022
He’s a thickset, outdoorsy-looking guy in his 50s, bearded and wearing a green hoodie featuring the Second Life Freeze Dry logo.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2019
Like its owner, the sheep was thickset and close shaven.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2018
Baker later pulled the book on the thickset right-handed reliever and realized Albers was the same size he’d been listed at for years — 6-foot-1, 225 pounds.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2017
His solid, thickset body spoke of fights that he had started and won, and the buck-teeth that gaped through his lips made him seem vaguely dangerous.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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