clean-limbed
Americanadjective
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having slender, well-proportioned arms and legs.
a clean-limbed athlete.
adjective
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having well-proportioned limbs
Etymology
Origin of clean-limbed
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75
Example Sentences
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On one side, they are clean-limbed, jut-jawed American boys who never wash out, never suffer combat fatigue or fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family.
From Time Magazine Archive
The jaunty, clean-limbed incumbent of the $30,000,000 Peacock Throne of Persia was once a swashbuckling bandit, Reza Khan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moira Shearer's pert, clean-limbed dancing is by no means up to the superb technical and dramatic skill of Sadler's Wells' prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their grey coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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