cold-blooded - Without compunction or human feeling.
Usage: These callous, cold-blooded killers butchered six people.
sinewy - (Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful.
Usage: She saw the sinewy form leap to the shoulder of the lion, hurtling against the leaping beast like a huge, animate battering ram.
demure - Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way.
Synonyms: coy, overmodest
Usage: Lowering her glance unexpectedly till her dark eye-lashes seemed to rest against her white cheeks, she presented a perfectly demure aspect.
frowsty - Stale and unclean smelling.
Usage: As a college student, all I could afford was a frowsty basement apartment, but it served its purpose.
nonobjective - Not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature.
Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative
- Usage: The focal point of the living room was a massive, nonobjective painting that looked to me like nothing more than a chaotic mess of colors and splotches.
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