Those burly books were really expensive.
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Burly
/ˈbɜːli/
Synonyms for "burly" (98 found)
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He was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.
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A police officer radioed his superiors to report that things were calm, and foreign journalists vastly outnumbered the protesters. Behind him, burly plainclothes security agents stood shoulder-to-shoulder, blocking the street.
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She prefers big, burly men.
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