suety
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a word derived from
suet.
suetnounthe hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
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
Perhaps he was Georgy Malenkov, the suety, waxen-faced Great Russian who donned the dictator's mantle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Augie is so suety that on a warm day the cooler is the only place he can keep his body heat down.
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To the stodgy, suety world of course it's little else than sheer moonshine, midsummer madness.
From The Return by Walter De la Mare