Comparative for lean or skinny in build
“I turned around to face him, doing everything I could to not gawk at his lean, wiry figure.”
Comparative for athletically tough
“He is wiry, bearded, a life-long mountaineer, skier and runner and one of Scotland's leading endurance riders.”
Comparative for coarse and bristly in form and texture (resembling wires)
“He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face.”
Comparative for capable of bending easily without breaking
Comparative for covered with hair or bristles
Comparative for formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls
Comparative for of, resembling, or pertaining to fiber
Comparative for made, growing, or arranged in curls or curves
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