Adjective: bemuscled
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bemuscled |
| Superlative | most bemuscled |
Sample Sentences
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All the bemuscled residents of the hotel were huddling in the lobby looking like sailors' wives waiting on the dock. [1971, James Blake, The Joint, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, page 376:]
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But the arrest of Sunjay Dutt, who usually plays a singing, dancing, bemuscled hero, has also plunged the Bombay film world into a witchhunt similar to Hollywood's anti-Communist purge in the 1950s. [1993 May 4, Tim McGirk, “Star's arrest worries the film industry: Indian cinema is no longer popular with politicians”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023:]
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The only men who seem to be relaxed at the gym are those who spend half their lives there - the personal trainers, the addicts, the pros. We mock these bemuscled hulks in the pub, but they morph into heroes at the gym. And, secretly, I wonder: how do I get anywhere near that level of tautness? [2003 August 23, “A weight on their shoulders”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2014:]
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As fantasies go, this one is beyond innocent, involving neither a bemuscled UPS man nor an indulgent yoga boot camp with my best friend in Tulum. [2012 March 2, Lisa Miller, “To Putter, Divine”, in New York Magazine, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022:]
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I was quite glad to have some wood between me and the bemuscled specimens of manhood in the hall, bristling with sharp things and making me feel inadequate. [2013, Francis Knight, Fade to Black, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 93:]
Adjectives inflected like bemuscled
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From be- + muscled.