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- ropi·ly adverb
- ropi·ness noun
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He was a short, lean man with a leathery face and long, black ropy hair, and beady black eyes that caught the light like a cat's.
Near the Guardian Rocks large masses of ropy lava are found which suggest ejected bombs.
Put a pint of clean sugar to a pint of juice, and boil it slowly, till it becomes ropy.
All I could see then was a bunch of black ropy arms tangled around what looked like, as Putz described it to you, an ostrich.
The wet shirt clinging close to his body outlined well-knit shoulders, ropy-muscled arms.
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