Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the muscles relaxed; flaccid: as, unmuscled cheeks.
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- adjective Not
muscled ; lackingmuscles .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A Ralph Lauren–style shot of her playing croquet with a shirtless, unmuscled boy.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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A Ralph Lauren–style shot of her playing croquet with a shirtless, unmuscled boy.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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A Ralph Lauren–style shot of her playing croquet with a shirtless, unmuscled boy.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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A Ralph Lauren–style shot of her playing croquet with a shirtless, unmuscled boy.
DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010
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Then what wry faces will they make! their hearts, and their heads, reproaching each other! — distended their parched mouths! — sunk their unmuscled cheeks! — dropt their under jaws! — each grunting like the swine he had resembled in his life!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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And is Gertrude any better, after all, than an innocent Delilah, trapping no Samson, but a fool unmuscled, who has no strength to break the weakest of her withes?
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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The cast looks just as it should: Stephanie Marshall's Erika is pale, slim and princess-lovely; Wendy Nielsen's Vanessa is a handsome woman of a certain age whose beauty has hardened; Adam Luther's Anatol is a dapper, affable, unmuscled hedonist.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Elissa Poole 2011
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A thin, unmuscled person, Ted Williams, Lou Brock, can hit the ball a long way without lifting weights, without steroids.
EconTalk Russell Roberts 2010
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how does she stand on pointe, how walk with feet at ten to two and even a quarter to three, how loosen her frail unmuscled arms so they flow, supple and boneless - and how should he incorporate his findings in the flawless composition of a painting?
Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011
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how does she stand on pointe, how walk with feet at ten to two and even a quarter to three, how loosen her frail unmuscled arms so they flow, supple and boneless - and how should he incorporate his findings in the flawless composition of a painting?
Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011
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