Definitions for square-shouldered

square-shouldered square-shoul·dered

Spelling: [skwair-shohl-derd]
IPA: /ˈskwɛərˈʃoʊl dərd/

Square-Shouldered is a 17 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1261 anagrams from letters in square-shouldered (-addeeehloqrrssuu).

Definitions for square-shouldered

adjective

  1. having the shoulders held back, giving a straight form to the upper part of the back.

Origin of square-shouldered

First recorded in 1815-25

Examples for square-shouldered

He was tall, square-shouldered and strong, with an air of elegance that was not exactly refined, but easy and unaffected.

One square-shouldered fellow raised her lightly from the ground.

The Germans are a big, square-shouldered, deep-chested race.

He was of about medium stature, and as straight and square-shouldered as an athlete.

Apart, square-shouldered and indomitable, stood a young man of twenty-six.

He was a typical American, tall, square-shouldered, and not over-burdened with flesh.

His big, square-shouldered figure stood out sharply against the glow.

The upper part was inhabited by a collection of bottles, all square-shouldered and as like each other as peas.

Makes you look broader-chested and square-shouldered—more of the man.

The engineer was thirty; big, square-shouldered, lithe, and capable.

Word Value for square-shouldered
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15

Words with friends

16

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