Definitions
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- adjective
Constructed in apleasing orsound manner. - adjective
Muscular andlean , having abody resembling that of anathlete
Etymologies
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Examples
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This 22-year-old wrote a personal "senior honors thesis" on her sexual flings and binges with 13 of Duke University's most desirable men, mostly well-built male athletes.
Bonnie Fuller: Why Duke University's Karen Owen Is the Sexual Oversharer of All Time! And Good Luck Getting a Job! Bonnie Fuller 2010
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This 22-year-old wrote a personal "senior honors thesis" on her sexual flings and binges with 13 of Duke University's most desirable men, mostly well-built male athletes.
Bonnie Fuller: Why Duke University's Karen Owen Is the Sexual Oversharer of All Time! And Good Luck Getting a Job! Bonnie Fuller 2010
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O'Rourke's facile scholarship, his selective overview of cycling cargo bikes, including well-built bicycles from Minnesota, can carry several cases of beer, by the way and a bike-lane-wide streak of the very childishness he accuses adult cyclists of exhibiting.
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Later his precious, well-built body came back to me in a little white box draped in a burgundy velvet bag.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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Physically, she's a lot like me - dark, well-built, rough complexion, big nose.
Layers vic fortezza 2011
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Physically, she's a lot like me - dark, well-built, rough complexion, big nose.
Layers vic fortezza 2011
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The figure of a tall, well-built man in a long duster with a neatly trimmed goatee stood large as life in front of the metal coffin.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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He saw a well-built young man of thirty, well-featured, well-dressed, and evidently, in the world's catalogue, a gentleman.
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Later his precious, well-built body came back to me in a little white box draped in a burgundy velvet bag.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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The figure of a tall, well-built man in a long duster with a neatly trimmed goatee stood large as life in front of the metal coffin.
Starcraft II: Devils’ Due Christie Golden 2011
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