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  • adjective comparative form of wiry: more wiry

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Examples

  • Sandwiched between their big-haired curviness, Cheyenne looked even tinier and wirier than ever.

    CONFESSIONS KATE BRIAN 2007

  • Sandwiched between their big-haired curviness, Cheyenne looked even tinier and wirier than ever.

    CONFESSIONS KATE BRIAN 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Tom was of slighter build, and wirier, his skin much more pale.

    Gold in the Sky Alan Edward Nourse 1960

  • He was a man of about my own age and height, but slimmer and wirier.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • A good-looking man, about the same age and height as the mayor, but slimmer, wirier.

    Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942

  • 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.

    The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy 2009

  • 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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