Lean or skinny in build
“I turned around to face him, doing everything I could to not gawk at his lean, wiry figure.”
Athletically tough
“He is wiry, bearded, a life-long mountaineer, skier and runner and one of Scotland's leading endurance riders.”
Coarse and bristly in form and texture (resembling wires)
“He had long, wiry black hair, and a bristly goatee-beard-mustache combination around his lower face.”
Capable of bending easily without breaking
Covered with hair or bristles
Formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls
Of, resembling, or pertaining to fiber
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