suety

Example Sentences

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Turner, with his lumbering gait and broad, suety face, dominates the picture, seeming to personify his age and all its contradictions.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2014

Alas, for two months now, the suety onetime strongman has been sweating it out in a Florida jail, while his lawyers try to arrange bail on extradition charges.

From Time Magazine Archive

Into Vevey, Switzerland, for the wedding of Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon, 24, to a Spanish banking heiress, bounced Egypt's suety ex-King Farouk, 41, accompanied by second daughter Princess Fawzia, 21.

From Time Magazine Archive

As though, perhaps, he had suddenly seen someone coming toward him, someone he loathed and had always avoided but now would be forced to confront: an aging, suety and slightly repulsive intellectual.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ay, sir, you have it theer—you have it theer!" said the fat, red-faced publican, in a thick, suety voice.

From The Croxley Master: A Great Tale Of The Prize Ring by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir