other words for wiry
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Every now and then the hard, wiry line slipped off the nippers and sawed across his smarting fingers or palms.
Besides he had had some chocolate; he was thin and wiry, and a monk, and mental anxieties were unknown to him.
If you had been a puny, wiry, yellow baby, I wouldn't have stood godmother to you.
She put the baby into his wiry old arms—a very right move of hers.
Mrs Marks herself did not age; she was one of those hard, wiry women that are capable of looking forty for twenty years.
The wiry hairs of the Chief Medical Officer's red moustache bristled like a cat's.
The angler, a tall thin man of sixty, with a keen grave face and wiry gray hair, regarded the Parson steadfastly.
These people usually have square, stocky bodies, strong and wiry, and are tenacious of life.
He was a small, bearded, wiry man of forty-four or five, who gave you a curious impression of ferocity and mildness mingled.
For the farmer reached out a ham-like hand and seized the wiry Lycurgus by the shoulder, and shook him.
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WORDS RELATED TO WIRY
- angular
- anorexic
- barren
- beanpole
- bony
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- inadequate
- infertile
- lank
- lanky
- meager
- no fat
- pitiful
- poor
- rangy
- rawboned
- scanty
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sinewy
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- sparse
- stick
- stilt
- stringy
- svelte
- sylphlike
- twiggy
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wasted
- wiry
- wizened
- worn
- angular
- anorexic
- barren
- beanpole
- bony
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- inadequate
- infertile
- lank
- lanky
- meager
- no fat
- pitiful
- poor
- rangy
- rawboned
- scanty
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sinewy
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- sparse
- stick
- stilt
- stringy
- svelte
- sylphlike
- twiggy
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wasted
- wiry
- wizened
- worn
- angular
- anorexic
- barren
- beanpole
- bony
- emaciated
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- inadequate
- infertile
- lank
- lanky
- meager
- no fat
- pitiful
- poor
- rangy
- rawboned
- scanty
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- sinewy
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- spare
- sparse
- stick
- stilt
- stringy
- svelte
- sylphlike
- twiggy
- unfruitful
- unproductive
- wasted
- wiry
- wizened
- worn