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bemuscled en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- + muscled.

Meanings

1. (literary) Having large muscles.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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