Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being wiry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being wiry.

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  • noun The state of being wiry

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property of being lean and tough and sinewy

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Examples

  • His face had rounded out in an attractive way, and his build had grown stocky, shedding his adolescent lean-muscled wiriness.

    The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

  • He was slender and lacked the overt muscular toughness displayed by Ustal or even the wiriness of some armsmen.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • He could feel the wiriness of her pubic hair against his face, could feel the soft flesh of her sex against his mouth, could smell the muskiness of her arousal in his nose, and he began licking her, his tongue working between her vaginal lips and into her ready opening.

    The Store Little, Bentley 1998

  • The hand I held was much larger than Frank's, and my fingers brushed the wiriness of coarse hairs on the wrist.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • He kept old sailor skills, such as carrying loads carefully, and while his body wasn't that of any Hercules, its wiriness had never flagged.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Otherwise, his inborn wiriness can feed upon itself until it is uncontrollable.

    You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! Raymond N. Guarendi 1985

  • Otherwise, his inborn wiriness can feed upon itself until it is uncontrollable.

    You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! Raymond N. Guarendi 1985

  • The door closed upon their elasticity but the basic wiriness of hundreds of them clogged the door at the end.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

  • He bent his back against the pressure of that wiriness and managed to turn the wheel that locked the door in place.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

  • If only he could hit that dancing, jumping ball with a fifth of the skill that O'Hara was displaying, his wiriness and pluck might see him through.

    The Gold Bat 1928

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