thickset
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At 68, Luttig is ruddy-faced and thickset in a way that might be expected from a man who has a home in Vail but doesn’t ski.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2023
Jayden — who had grown thickset, with curly black hair and a pigeon-toed waddle — needed new socks and sippy cups.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2022
Vinterberg also makes excellent use of Mikkelsen’s own past as a dancer, mining the incongruously fluid body language of a tall, thickset man with a jaw that seems carved out of lead.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2020
The same small quick eyes, the same thickset imperturbable body; the same schedules.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
Two boys—tall, thickset teens—trailed behind her, clad in threadbare suits, looking bored and sullen.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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