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adj. - Consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon adj. - (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; (of meat) full of tendons.

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  • I intend to discuss just that in sinewy masculine prose.
  • Again, the unabridged dictionary gives "sinewy" as its first definition of "nervous."
  • Books that length struggle to find a publisher these days, so this kind of sinewy masterpiece is a dying art-form.
  • Never had he felt so keyed-up, so sinewy of nerve.
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