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  • adverb In a beefy manner.

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beefy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I usually never order a Filet Mignon $42, since it is my feeling that a plain hunk of beef like that is boring, always going instead for a bone-in Ribeye, but somehow I had a grilled filet here at the concert last month which was so tender and beefily enticing that I ate the whole damn thing.

    Jay Weston: Vibrato -- Cool Jazz and Hot Food... or Vice Versa Jay Weston 2011

  • I usually never order a Filet Mignon $42, since it is my feeling that a plain hunk of beef like that is boring, always going instead for a bone-in Ribeye, but somehow I had a grilled filet here at the concert last month which was so tender and beefily enticing that I ate the whole damn thing.

    Jay Weston: Vibrato -- Cool Jazz and Hot Food... or Vice Versa Jay Weston 2011

  • The main drag, Seventh Avenue, had a Benetton and two restaurants with tablecloths - but it also had shoe repair shops, butchers, bodegas and dark bars specializing in shots and beers for a hardscrabble, beefily forearmed clientele.

    Alfred Gingold: Thy Neighbor's Ass 2009

  • That made them roar; Forbes was a beefily substantial sort, while Fogarty Simms was a pinched starveling of a man.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • He might have gone on until death, dealing with excitable greasers and hysterical machinery, but for the coming of a new mine superintendent -- one of those Englishmen, stolid, red-mustached, pipe-smoking, eye-brow-lifting, who at first seem beefily dull, but prove to have known every one from

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • There, its members beefily occupy a clubhouse adjacent to an auto-body shop.

    Slate Magazine Troy Patterson 2010

  • Rose, beefily muscular, intensely squeezed his bat and was a tightly coiled spring, pure energy lusting for release, while Carew, angular and long-limbed, seemed relaxed at the plate to the point of drowsiness, resembling nothing so much as a housecat casually perched on a windowsill, languidly contemplating the afternoon scene.

    The Hardball Times 2009

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