brawny

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“
His companion, who despises such vanities, is poor, though honest,--brawny and impregnable.

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  1. adjective Strong and muscular. See Synonyms at muscular.
  2. adjective Hardened; calloused.

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  • "Just to Get to You Tonight" sounds like a brawny country blues ditty. —  Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog
  • It has a brawny, hairy arm wielding a sword (to suggest it is primitive and bellicose). —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • For, one finds that the spectacle of big and brawny-looking jungles leaping up from cleared land as rough facsimiles of their presumably pristine, riotously fecund antecedents has gotten earlier attention among the experts that has then been echoed in the media. —  Knight Science Journalism Tracker
  • From the brawny, single-minded pugilism of Dragon Ball Z's peak, we were moved on to the more effeminate stylings of Kenshin. —  Anime News Network
  • Komal sobbed and pleaded that she was innocent as the brawny cops in Etawah district's Kailokhar village, about 300 km from here, pulled her up by her hair, twisted her ears and rained blows inside the police station. —  India eNews
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sinewy ·  burly ·  stalwart ·  muscular ·  beefy ·  bronzed ·  swarthy ·  broad-shouldered ·  hulking ·  thick-set ·  bony ·  shapely
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  1. from Middle English brawny, fleshy (of fruit); from brawn + -y.
 

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