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- adjective
comparative form ofwiry : morewiry
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Examples
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Sandwiched between their big-haired curviness, Cheyenne looked even tinier and wirier than ever.
CONFESSIONS KATE BRIAN 2007
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Sandwiched between their big-haired curviness, Cheyenne looked even tinier and wirier than ever.
CONFESSIONS KATE BRIAN 2007
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Finally, adapting the strategies of the wirier Visigoths, he opted -- well, I suppose in a court of law I can't exactly say for what he opted.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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Carl, his shorter companion, was wirier, but Austin knew from past experience that he was the more deadly of the two.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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Carl, his shorter companion, was wirier, but Austin knew from past experience that he was the more deadly of the two.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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Tom was of slighter build, and wirier, his skin much more pale.
Gold in the Sky Alan Edward Nourse 1960
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He was a man of about my own age and height, but slimmer and wirier.
The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough
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A good-looking man, about the same age and height as the mayor, but slimmer, wirier.
Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942
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Under the cowl, Dick Grayson is a wirier figure that Bruce Wayne, and Quitely takes a more realistic style when it comes to depicting the main characters.
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on a slightly wirier note, I wonder if a filter that blocked emails with those words in them might help?
The Next Morning with the Overcow | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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