Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the muscles relaxed; flaccid: as, unmuscled cheeks.

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  • adjective Not muscled; lacking muscles.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ muscled

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Examples

  • A Ralph Lauren–style shot of her playing croquet with a shirtless, unmuscled boy.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • A Ralph Lauren–style shot of her playing croquet with a shirtless, unmuscled boy.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • A Ralph Lauren–style shot of her playing croquet with a shirtless, unmuscled boy.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • A Ralph Lauren–style shot of her playing croquet with a shirtless, unmuscled boy.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A thin, unmuscled person, Ted Williams, Lou Brock, can hit the ball a long way without lifting weights, without steroids.

    EconTalk Russell Roberts 2010

  • 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

  • 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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