underexercised love

Definitions

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  • adjective Having inadequate exercise.

Etymologies

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under- +‎ exercised

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Examples

  • None of them were being treated in the hospital when the outbreak started, but they were nevertheless almost as medically fragile as hospital patients: undernourished, underexercised, with immune systems already overtaxed.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • None of them were being treated in the hospital when the outbreak started, but they were nevertheless almost as medically fragile as hospital patients: undernourished, underexercised, with immune systems already overtaxed.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • None of them were being treated in the hospital when the outbreak started, but they were nevertheless almost as medically fragile as hospital patients: undernourished, underexercised, with immune systems already overtaxed.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • On Letterman's show he nearly always wore a not very elegant suit and tie, and he had a large round face and big glasses-I always thought of an older, underexercised Tweetie

    Tom Gliatto: May the Angels Welcome You, Larry "Bud" Melman 2008

  • End result: an obese, underexercised population with polluted air to breathe.

    Are autos necessary? 2006

  • Still, next to his tall, blond, muscly figure - which stands in stark contrast to my short, underexercised, slightly balding one - I often find myself thinking sometimes that he may have gotten the better deal in this arrangement.

    you are here and warm 2005

  • Remembering the podgy, underexercised looks of the gunslingers he had taken these weapons from, it seemed that they cared better for the weapons they wore than for the weapons they were.

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • Comedy is a tense form, so Updike lets himself go, like an underexercised racehorse, on passages of description.

    Warlock Johnson, Diane 1984

  • The screen flickered momentarily, then built up a stereo-picture of a dowager, fat and fretful, overdressed and underexercised.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Tetlow's fat, smooth, pasty face of the overfed, underexercised professional man became a curious exhibit of alarm and obstinacy.

    Grain of Dust. 1911

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